Bug#604937: gcc-4.4 (cross): build dependencies: gcc-4.4-source (needed?)

[Hector Oron <hector.oron@gmail.com>]

Hello,

2010/11/26 Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>:
> On 25.11.2010 17:06, Hector Oron wrote:
>>   Cross building gcc-4.4, it depends on -source packages:
>>   dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: gcc-4.4-source (>= 4.4.5)
>>   gcc-4.4-source (<<  4.4.6)
>>
>>   Those dependencies are not needed for cross builds, extra space is taken
>> in
>> the build host which is not needed and for slow connections, it takes a
>> while
>> to get the extra packages, could those be disabled?
>
> No. It appears that you include the source tarball in your cross source
> package itself, which IMO is not necessary.
>

I do not have a cross source package, just a script which installs
cross dependencies using dpkg-cross, then crossbuild binutils using:
  TARGET=<debian_arch> fakeroot debian/rules binary-cross
  (which breaks on experimental) and else has to be run.

and then cross build gcc using:
  GCC_TARGET=${ARCH} DEB_CROSS=yes fakeroot debian/rules control
  DEB_CROSS_NO_BIARCH=yes \
        GCC_TARGET=${ARCH} DEB_CROSS=yes dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot

as described in the documentation.

Best regards,
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