On 2009-10-12 23:19, Hector wrote: > Package: eglibc > Severity: wishlist > > > Hello, > > We would like to be able to have cross toolchains in the Debian archive. > Currently, at emdebian.org we provide precompiled binaries but we need a way > for the autobuilders to understand how to build it. > > The eglibc bit needed is a dpkg-cross -a$(DEB_HOST_ARCH) -b for the > libraries and headers of a foreign architecture, that maybe you maintainers > could provide as the regular build, but taking into account that it is a > mid-hack until multiarch is ready and able to provide a nicer solution for > this problem. As an alternative, we could upload a source package build > depending on eglibc-source and trying to do all this magic. This can be > somehow tricky as you probably already know libc and libgcc have circular > dependencies, which prevents us from bootstrapping the compiler 100% from > source. > > Comments are welcome, as I am unsure which it is the cleaner and nicer way > of providing what libc{6,6.1}-$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)-cross provides and have the > autobuilder happy. >
glibc now supports being cross built, and cross compiled version for major architectures are available in the archive. I therefore think this bug can be closed. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net