Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 05 Dec 2007, Neil Williams wrote: >> My first patch did exactly that - and failed on building a cross >> compiler. gcc needs dpkg-shlibdeps to take notice of $ARCH in the >> preparation of libgcc1-$arch-cross and other libraries used in the >> complete toolchain. It needs (and sets) DEB_TARGET_GNU_TYPE != >> DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE at other stages of the build. > > If that's the case, I'd like to know if this is deliberate and really > required... can't the gcc package be consistent and always have both > DEB_TARGET_GNU_TYPE and DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE properly set ? Even if gcc changes that behaviour in 4.2 (or 4.3), lots of people still need to be able to build cross compilers from older versions of gcc, especially 4.1 and some even need 3.3 or 3.4. Emdebian still hosts 4.1 and 3.4 toolchains: http://www.emdebian.org/toolchains/search.php?package=gcc-3.4-arm-linux-gnu It's not sensible to say that these cannot be built in the future without writing a whole new diversion for dpkg-shlibdeps. Emdebian and lots of other people doing cross building need backwards compatibility here. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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