On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 12:16 +1100, Brendan Simon wrote:
> Can emchain select which version of gcc to build.
No - that is a job for buildcross that builds the normal Emdebian
toolchain packages in the repository.
Certain packages built from the toolchain sources are disabled when that
version is deemed not to be the "Default GCC for Debian Unstable" by the
GCC maintainers in Debian - it is completely out of our hands.
buildcross supports patches that can build the relevant versions but
that is a completely separate task and is not suitable for integration
with emdebian-tools. (It actually requires a large amount of input from
Hector to keep all the permutations working - the fact that the versions
you requested are *not* available should indicate that there are
problems beyond those you found with the emchain method.)
emchain is a little helper to get you out of a hole {singular}
(sometimes) - buildcross is a completely different beast (written in
shell as a set of modules), designed to build as many permutations as
possible.
--
Neil Williams
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