Re: cross compilation problems

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Steve Bowman <sbowman@frostwork.net> wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:02:50AM -0500, Daniel E . Baumann wrote:
>> I just installed the debian package. What else needs to be done?
>
>Well, since I haven't done it yet, I'd have to guess.  First of all,
>there are two ways to build, with or without the debian/rules makefile.
>
>With it, a native build looks like:
>
>    dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us
>
>and from comments in an unrelated message, I gather a cross-build would
>look like:
>
>    dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -ahurd-i386
>
>but I don't know if that takes care of everything for you.  That is, do
>you also need to set some env such as CC=i386-gnu-gcc or MIG=i386-gnu-mig?

I've been using this, with the gcc-i386-gnu, mig-i386-gnu, and
devscripts packages installed:

  PATH=/usr/i386-gnu/bin:$PATH debuild -ePATH

This seems to wrap all the necessary tools correctly.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]