Hello, On 2025-06-19 20:44, Samuel Thibault wrote:
I'm not aware of any fundamental reason against this, but I guess it's rather to be discussed with the build-essential maintainers.
After some research, I found that Debian only has cross-compiling tool packages for Linux (gcc-*-linux-gnu) in the stock package source, but not those for other kernels like Hurd, *BSD. That sounds a little reasonable, I think, since there are so many architectures listed by `dpkg-architecture -L` that it would be a big mass to include all tools for all of them.
My question is also asked in a bug report[1] of build-essential, while it seems to have no reply. I'm not going to bother the build-essential maintainers, as most of the missing packages can be built with some simple changes of the packages' source codes.
I post this mail just for sealing this question, no need to reply. Best regards! [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1095058 -- Yuqian Yang <crupest@crupest.life>