Hi Neil, 2010/3/17 Neil Williams <[email protected]>: >> Anyway I might be missing some bits, but I wanted to suggest about >> empbuilder, it makes no sense to me, but an option on Debian's >> pbuilder & sbuilder & friends (-a $arch) makes more sense if not >> already there. > > If I could have done that I wouldn't have needed to write empdebuild.
By that time we did not have the support we have in Debian nowadays. I still believe this feature is nice to have and way to go. > empdebuild does several things on top of normal pbuilder code: > > 1. installs cross-building toolchains for the requested arch > 2. installs emdebian-tools inside the chroot > (these first two steps can now be done by multistrap) Not an issue anymore, also think in an hipotetical Debian cross toolchains from Debian archive. > 3. runs emdebuild inside the chroot instead of debuild, including > emdebuild --build-deps which relies on apt-cross and xcontrol files. I was more thinking on a further step 'debuild -a $arch' with apt-ma-emu (always within Debian framework). More than thinking on a working solution, think on a 'future' working solution and start getting support by tools. >> >> 3. Start to strip out scripts like 'emsetup' and 'emchain' which are >> >> also fairly broken. These scripts won't survive the removal of >> >> apt-cross and, again, AFAICT don't actually complete at the moment >> >> anyway. >> > >> > The function 'check my cross-toolchain is installed and works' is a >> > useful one. > > That function needs a rewrite - it relies on apt-cross cache data which > is usually flawed. The purpose is good, the code needs work. > >> > emsetup could perhaps be kept for this purpose? I've had >> > to explain to someone only this week how to check that. Having >> > 'build-cross-essential' is probably helpful here too. > > That would be the purpose of the rewritten emsetup, yes. Maybe even a > quick test that the toolchain actually works. OK, I leave it up to you, I shall also work on remote dejagnu tests for the compilers but that's a different issue. -- Héctor Orón "Our Sun unleashes tremendous flares expelling hot gas into the Solar System, which one day will disconnect us." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
