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Re: Cross-building perl package



-=| gregor herrmann, 20.10.2013 01:22:53 +0200 |=-
> On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 02:47:09 +0400, Victor Efimov wrote:
> 
> > Can I build for debian 8 being under debian 6?
> > Can I build for debian6/7/8 under random Ubuntu version?
> 
> 2x yes, by using a chroot. pbuilder/cowbuilder and sbuild are the
> usual tools for doing this.

Which effectively allows you to build Debian X packages using the perl 
interpreter from Debian X, which is what you usually want anyway 
(think of XS libraries).

This is not cross-building, more of backporting/frontporting.

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