On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> wrote: > +++ Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2010-12-19 21:04 +0000]: > >> weelll... how about creating an easy means for anybody to create >> their _own_ debootstrap'd cross-compiled starting point, based on >> _their_ decisions and requirements, and debian can host the most >> popular ones? > > I quite agree (and have done for years), and am actually working on it > at the moment.
fantastic! ... i can't help say it though: you are no doubt aware that this very much looks like "wheel-duplication"; that openembedded's build system has all this sorted for absolutely years? (there's also portage but it's nothing like as well-utilised for both cross and native compiling as openembedded). so i'm curious: is there any particular reason why, instead of turning an existing tool which does 95% of the work with 10% extra effort to create the tool, a complete from-scratch debootstrap-cross-compiler was started instead? [ i can think of several good answers as to why, btw - it's _not_ a "deliberately criticising" question. ] so - the system you're creating: will it be possible, right at the beginning, to specify the compiler flags and options required? the reason i ask is that i have encountered a 400mhz ARM926EJS system which has ... get this: 800mhz DDR2 RAM! (ok, 400mhz bus, double-data-rate). the memory is therefore as fast as the CPU (!) and so any logic which says "thumb instructions are faster" is completely out the window. i would therefore like to do a complete, total rebuild of the ARM926 debian packages.... with thumb *disabled* but thumb interoperability enabled and ... well anything else i can think of that will be deliberately wildly different from "standard" debian just to get the point across :) so - will it be possible to do a total rebuild (requiring about 10 minutes of reading documentation to create one config file, one command line) of debootstrap and beyond, with "ARM926EJS with thumb disabled"? l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinbwu880ra3adtzusnsquxrcuksybtqpb=4t...@mail.gmail.com
