Re: Building cross armel toolchain
On 2007-03-13 22:33 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:43:22 +0000
> Wookey <wookey@aleph1.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > /usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/ ? shouldn't that be /usr/armel-linux-gnu/ ?
> >
> > No. See discussions passim about arch names. The dir for this stuff
> > is: $(CROSSBASE)/$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) - i.e. GNU type not some combo
> > of debian arch name and gnu name, which is what armel-linux-gnu would
> > be.
>
> That illuminated a bug in emchain which assumed -linux-gnu. I've
> corrected that now, it reads the DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE from dpkg-cross.pl
> as it should have done originally. (Fix in r650).
> http://buildd.emdebian.org/svn/changeset/650
>
> BTW, where is Lennert's ADS repository?
http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiHowto has the details. The answer is:
http://armel-debs.applieddata.net/debian
> I'd like to be able to reproduce your build. I've tried using the patch
> from #408807 but that is not sufficient.
> > > Have you tried using emchain after manually setting the
> > > ~/.dpkg-cross/cross-compile file to specify the new armel
> > > architecture? emchain doesn't care *what* string is put in
> > > default_arch, as long as dpkg-cross can handle it. I'll add a note
> > > to the manpage to the effect that the list presented by debconf is
> > > just the most common / predictable options.
> >
> > No, because the upstream sources do not have all the patches I need,
> > and so far as I could see emchain would always download upstream
> > sources, not use some sources provided for it in an arbitrary place.
> > If it could do that I would have given it a go.
>
> Hmm, emchain relies on apt-cross to detect whether to download packages
> or to use existing files. apt-cross in turn depends on apt-get source
> which will skip existing files. If the replacement sources use
> precisely the same filenames, emchain will use whatever exists in the
> specified working directory. In that context, it could work - albeit
> you may have to specify DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=armel-linux-gnueabi somehow
> as emchain does not pass that variable into the environment of the
> build. Is it worth passing that variable (with the value returned by
> dpkg-cross.pl) to gcc by default?
Pass. quite possibly. Passing the full set that dpkg-architecture
returns is probably safest.
Wookey
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