On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 06:40:12AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > [-68k readded] > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:04:49PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Bill Allombert a ?crit : > > >My personnal plan is to set up one or two fast amd64 octocore as a m68k > > >buildd. > > >That would lift most of the objection with the port. > > The question is to know if it is ok to use emulators to build and upload > > packages? > > The m68k porters have been firmly against cross-compiling in the past, > it's their call on whether this sort of approach is suitable.
Well, using an emulator as a buildd is generally not called cross-compiling, since you are running native code. However I also experimented using a cross-compiler through the use of distcc. Results are on debian-68k archives and are positive. This would allow packages to build much more quickly. IIRC, the m68k kernels are already cross-compiled. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large blue swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
