Re: cross-compiler for powerpc

[ternaryd <ternaryd@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:03:09 +0100
Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote:

> Add an apt source for backports when using squeeze.

Thanks, this did work, mostly.

> Add an apt source for your preferred Debian mirror pointing at
> squeeze when using sid.

Also this did work, mostly. While I was able to build all libraries on
squeeze, xapt failed on sid. For instance, trying to build the postgres
client library:

xapt -a powerpc libpq-dev

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Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/bin/dpkg-cross line 1046.
dpkg-cross: Skipping Multi-Arch package 'zlib1g_1%3a1.2.7.dfsg-13_powerpc.deb'.

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