Re: uclibc tools and packages

[Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>]

Hi,

Brendan Simon wrote:

> > I have some packages at http://uclibc.debian.net/ that might help you 
> > here; the "uclibc-toolchain" packages depend on the glibc based cross 
> > compilers from emdebian.

> I can't see any cross-compiler support.  I have an amd64 and i386 host, 
> and I want to cross-compile to a m68k (coldfire) target with uclibc.

Yes, these need to be built from source, by setting $TARGET to "m68k" 
and building with "fakeroot debian/rules binary-cross". For this to 
work, you need the glibc based cross compiler installed already.

Essentially, what this package does is transmogrify gcc's "specs" file 
to add a new option "-uclibc", which is then used by the wrapper script, 
so it is pretty tightly coupled to the compiler version used.

One day I will set up an autobuilder for this stuff.

   Simon