Hi, This week I worked on packaging crosstool-ng 1.23 for Debian using existing work.
I found that some dependencies are missing from the binary package so `ct-ng build` works correctly with minimal base system (like m4, wget). I also added patches: - 0001-Disable-MAKELEVEL-check.patch: An alternative to setting MAKELEVEL=0 inside debian/rules. This patch comments out the check of MAKELEVEL inside `Makefile.in`. - 0002-Makefile.in-remove-recursive-part.patch: This patch fix the infinite recursion issue. I should probably share this into crosstool-ng and put the following text into the patch description :). The issue is that Debian dh run `make -n` which give `nrR` inside MAKEFLAGS and the `filter` function only matches whole words. Using `findstring` replaces every occurrences of the given text, making the assumption that no long options will contain `rR` or `Rr`. - 0003-Backport-commit-Fix-debuild-warnings-errors.patch: This patch backports the commit [1] to fix lintian warning and errors. I added installation of the bash completion script into /usr/share/bash-completion/completions (which is the new directory replacing /etc/bash_completion.d/). I've added a watch file which use [4] and checks the gpg signature against `debian/upstream/signing-key.asc`. The signing-key.asc file contains public keys of Alexey Neyman and Bryan Hundven (not sure if they are all the needed signatures). I added a autopkgtest test to build a `arm-unknown-eabi` toolchain to check that the built package is working properly. I put my package sources on github [2] with a travis configuration to: - Build on travis a schroot of unstable (as travis use old ubuntu releases) - Use this schroot to run sbuild inside which also run lintian and autopkgtest. - Not that relevant but travis-ci also upload the built package to bintray when building a tag. I use git-buildpackage to manage the source package. My workflow is documented at `debian/README.source`. Due to the length of the toolchain building and limitation of travis build max duration, I only test one toolchain build (arm-unknown-eabi). FYI, Travis sbuild logs are available here [3]. I'm not sure about my medium/long term availability to maintain this package, but I hope what I have done can help to get crosstool-ng into Debian :) [1] https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng/commit/1b4e784a0ba636646def1db5ca012fd54ee7a81c [2] https://github.com/amurzeau/crosstool-ng-debian/ [3] https://travis-ci.org/amurzeau/crosstool-ng-debian/builds/252979392 [4] http://crosstool-ng.org/download/crosstool-ng/ Alexis Murzeau
