Hello, 1. BARE METAL
Recently, some people have been wanting to have in Debian, bare metal cross compilers for bare metal code, mainly arm-eabi target. They have been mainly using the summon-arm-toolchain[1]. We could reuse gcc/stage1 packaging[2] (done for testing purposes) and configure it similar to summon-arm-toolchain. Does someone have better ideas for such purpose? Note some people would like to easily be able to use a cross toolchain and link against newlib, uclibc and other C libraries. For such purpose, a couple git projects were created [3][4]. But maybe we should aim to just have only one source tree. If you want to contribute to the packaging, please ask to join 'emdebian' project on alioth[5] (and you dont even need to be Debian Developer). The idea would be to include this package in the upcoming Wheezy release (if we dont miss the freeze deadline). 2. LIBC CROSS TOOLCHAINS For the upcoming Wheezy release, current state of cross compilers its a bit unfortunate. Only ARM, SH and IA64 cross compilers are known to build and the rest might need to get fixed. Including the cross toolchains in the main Debian archive, at current state (with -$arch-cross dependencies), might not be worth it as multiarch is approaching and we should attempt to get them in their multiarch form. There is currently a Google Summer of Code project on the topic, but it might be too late to get them for Wheezy. Another alternative would be to upload Marcin packages[6], used by Ubuntu and Linaro, but those might need to be updated to cope with Debian. Also, these packages use (-$arch-cross) style dependencies. Currently are only tested for ARM targets, so those might also need extra work to get the rest of architectures buildable. Another alternative would be to try to fix emdebian.org way and publish wheezy cross compilers, as it has been done for previous releases. Help welcome. Any thoughts? Comments? [1] https://github.com/esden/summon-arm-toolchain [2] http://git.emdebian.org/?p=debian/packages/gcc-4.4-naked-cross.git;a=tree [3] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=emdebian/gcc-newlib-cross.git;a=summary [4] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=emdebian/gcc-uclibc-cross.git;a=summary [5] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/emdebian/ [6] http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/hrw/cross-toolchain-packaging.git;a=summary Kind regards, -- Héctor Orón -.. . -... .. .- -. -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caodfwef2cq8rclz_hkuuk4dvetskmamujtegwy+4heparto...@mail.gmail.com
