Re: m68k not a release arch for etch; status in testing, future plans?
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 06:40:12AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> [-68k readded]
>
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:04:49PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Bill Allombert a ?crit :
> > >My personnal plan is to set up one or two fast amd64 octocore as a m68k
> > >buildd.
> > >That would lift most of the objection with the port.
> > The question is to know if it is ok to use emulators to build and upload
> > packages?
>
> The m68k porters have been firmly against cross-compiling in the past,
> it's their call on whether this sort of approach is suitable.
Well, using an emulator as a buildd is generally not called cross-compiling,
since you are running native code.
However I also experimented using a cross-compiler through the use
of distcc. Results are on debian-68k archives and are positive.
This would allow packages to build much more quickly.
IIRC, the m68k kernels are already cross-compiled.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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