Does this mean I could upload all architecture version for my packages? If so yes, I think it's useful.
Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 52146 Wuerselen Go SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire! | Tel: (+49) 2405/4670-44 Use Debian GNU/Linux! | Fax: (+49) 2405/4670-10 >-----Original Message----- >From: Galen Hazelwood [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, June 22, 1997 8:41 PM >To: Hamish Moffatt >Cc: Die Adresse des Empfängers ist unbekannt. >Subject: Re: GCC cross-compilation > >Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> It occurred to >> me that since most of the Debian packages >> are also available for m68k and also >> Sparc and Alpha now, the develops are probably >> using cross-compilation, rather than actually >> owning all these machines. > >Nope. What happens is most (single-cpu) developers upload the source >and binaries for one architecture. Then helpful and nice developers who >own other machines upload binaries for their cpu, built from the source. > >> Is there a package >> for eg the m68k cross compiler? I couldn't >> find one with the package search on www.debian.org. > >I don't think so. At least, not one I built. > >> Thinking about it, it would seem possible >> to have a gcc-core package which would >> include the gcc binary itself for >[snip] > >There really isn't a "core" gcc package, just the native version. gcc >cross compilers wouldn't need any other gcc packages to be useful. > >> Is this plausible and/or useful? > >Plausible. Would anybody else consider this useful? > >--Galen > > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . >Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
