Hello all, I have a question regarding the use of the emdebian-tools in the native build environment.
I'm a novice to the Debian world (always used the RPM-based distros), so please excuse my ignorance of the Debian package and tools fundamentals. We are going to build our own PowerPC distribution (targeting a embedded system) based on the Emdebian package customization (DEB_VENDOR, etc). However, as fas I understood the Emdebian concept, it is a cross-build system, running on top of the standard Debian distribution, installed on a host. From my past experience with the cross-toolchains and cross-builds, I remember how painful could be a build process (used Den Kegel crosstool scripts to build a toolchain; libtool-based packages was the real problem to build in cross). Can I use the benefits of the native PowerPC build system (emdebian-tools, right?) to rebuild the Emdebian distribution (the target part of it) with my changes in package list, packages configurations, install scripts, etc? My plan is to run the emdebian-tools on a PowerPC system (a fast powerpc board with NFS-mounted Debian rootfs) to produce a PowerPC target distribution packages. In this way I hope I'll be able to simplify the build of the target components. Any suggestions/comments are welcome. Regards and thanks in advance, Sergei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
