On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 08:33:53AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 5/4/19 8:27 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> Just as a heads-up: There are updated installation images available > >> for Debian unstable for ia64 [1]. Those install a fresh system using GRUB > >> as a bootloader and come with the latest versions of the toolchain. > > > > Do we also have an x86 to ia64 cross compiler package for Debian? > > Those packages really help me with changes to other architectures, and > > the lack of them for ia64 makes compile-testing ia64 code rather painful. > > Hmm, I just realized that building the cross-compiler for ia64 is disabled > at the moment because we were having issues with libunwind back then. But > normally, on Debian and Ubuntu, you can just install the compiler with: > > # apt install gcc-8-$ARCH-linux-gnu > > And that should also be the case for ia64, hence I will look into fixing this > as it should have been long time ago. Thanks for the reminder.
Yes, and I've done that for all other architectures available, it is just ia64 that has been missing.
