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Re: Debian crosscompiler packages



* Hakan Ardo (hakan@debian.org) wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 04:01:45PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > 
> > summary
> > -------
> > All binutils seem to build happily
> > Gcc's are a lot more of a problem
> 
> Nice going!

No problem.

> > associated stuff; is it appropriate to use dpkg-cross to get these?
> 
> I don't know what's the best solution here. What is the procedure proposed
> upstream?

A variety of nasty hacks, half working solutions which work some of the
time for some combinations of source and destination with some compiler
versions.

My suggestion is to use dpkg-cross to get appropriate libraries and
point to the place it installs them, perhaps even make the dpkg-cross
installed packages included in the build dependencies.
(Anyone know of an apt-get hack for dpkg-cross so it can get and install
all dependents in the cross chain?)

> > Is it intended that I use
> > 
> > tpkg-make alpha-linux
> > 
> > or should I be using
> > 
> > tpkg-make alpha
> 
> This one "tpkg-make alpha" -linux will be added in the rules file. I'll add
> this to the README as well. Or shall we change it?

Personally I'd prefer that the name is passed-as-is to the gcc/binutils
configures; because I normally know what to give those to get what I
want.  I'd agree with adding the -linux in if it was for everything,
but since this package has the ability to build for things Linux won't
run on (e.g. AVR - anyone fancy a small port....) I'd rather not do it
conditionally.

Dave
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