Bug#896063: gcc-default-ports: cross compiler for RISC-V 32bit

[Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 07:58:13AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:

> Source: gcc-defaults-ports
> Version: 1.176
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> we have a package to cross compile RISC-V 64-bit (gcc-riscv64-linux-gnu).
> 
> Could you, please, also provide a similar package to cross compile RISC-V
> 32-bit.
> 
> This package is needed when developing software for 32-bit embedded RISC-V
> systems.

Hello,

providing a gcc-riscv32-linux-gnu cross-compiler in Debian
unfortunately isn't possible yet as upstream glibc currently has
only support for riscv64, but not for riscv32.  Making
predictions about the future is obviously difficult, but from
looking at the current state of development I would guess that
riscv32 support probably won't make it into the glibc 2.28
release which is planned for August 1, 2018, so we are probably
talking about a timeframe of "sometime in 2019".

I'm CCing the debian-riscv list in case somebody there should
have further insights regarding riscv32 support in glibc.

Regards,
Karsten
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