On Wednesday 18 August 2004 11:28, you wrote: > Hello. > > FYI: > I've been maintaining cross-compiler build support in gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.4 > source packages. Currently gcc-3.3 should build out of the box for all > debian targets, and gcc-3.4 needs a bit of syncronization; i'll do my best > to bring everything to working state ASAP. > > Can't you use debs built from gcc source packages? My original intent with cross-compilers was to build a ppc64 kernel for a IBM p615. Since this is not supported debian architecture I did not look at the gcc debian dir for help :(
> If your targets are not supported yet, maybe we should coordinate to add > the support? Maybe, but I see the following advantage at using crosstool: 1) simple build-depends: do not need to use dpkg-cross to convert some packages. (idea: is it possible to integrate apt and dpkg-cross so that "apt-get --arch ppc install libc6-dev" works?) 2) crosstool has a very active mailing list dedicated only to cross-compiling 3) one dpkg-buildpackge execution will generate all the binary packages I admit that the it is a big problem to keep all packages synchronised. This problem can be lessened by including debian's diffs in the crosstool source package and using the patched sources to build. So i thing that the "perfect" solution would be: 1) integrate apt-get and dpkg-cross 2) make the binutils source package generate all cross-binutils packages 3) make the gcc source package generate all cross-gcc packages 4) have all gcc and binutils cross packages in the pool the crosstool package appears to be a good temporary solution to me. Thanks for yours comments. Rafael
