On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 07:06:43AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:41:53AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > This is much off topic issue of this thread, but, "So you can make > > effort to build glibc for debian main distribution on another system > > that is not driven by the current glibc". Nowdays, we don't need to > > do this kind of work which is sometimes executed for system > > bootstrapping. > > Does that work? > > Cross compilation is tricky -- do you know anyone who has done this? > > If debian's glibc can be built on bsd running under bsd's libc, then > that fully satisfies the legal requirements, leaving just the practical > issues. > > Thanks,
I do this on a daily basis. Generating the complete set of Debian packages would be very difficult, but also unnecessary if you're willing to scrap a couple of chroots in the process. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
