Re: Debian crosscompiler packages
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 08:05:53PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > > 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?)
OK, it seems like a decent solution, if we can get it working...
> >
> > 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.
I can see the point in that. Do we want the package names to be
gcc-avr-linux and binutils-avr-linux as well instead of simply gcc-avr and
binutils-avr?
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Hakan Ardo <hakan@debian.org>, http://master.debian.org/~hakan/
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