On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:10:28 +0000 Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> wrote:
> I've thought for a long time that a package like build-essential for > cross-building would be a really good idea. +1 > Currently to get the right tools and libs installed for cross-building > you need to do slightly different things on different distros > > Having just been looking at sbuild cross-support it becomes clear that > something like this would be a very useful adititon. > > Can anyone see any reason why we shouldn't just have > $arch-crossbuild-essential which depends on the right things? > > It can easily be adjusted to be right for the distro it's in, and > removes the need for livebuilder, sbuild, multistrap etc to know > internally. It should probably depend on build-essential itself as a starting point. It does need to remain just the essential packages though - is it actually much more than the relevant g++-$version-$triplet cross-compiler? The only issue is that cross-compilers don't always move to newer versions in line with native compilers. So it would actually be easier for $arch-crossbuild-essential to *not* be from the same source package as build-essential. > Currently on Debian you'll need to have made the emdebian repositories > available because otherwise you won't find any cross-compilers, but > hopefully we'll have them in the main archive in the not-too distant. > In Ubuntu it'll just work already (for armel/armhf). > > I'll knock these up unless people have major objections. > Feel free to add me to the uploaders list... -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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