Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-19 Thread William ML Leslie
On 19 June 2016 at 02:25, William ML Leslie wrote: > > In case it isn't clear, the number of users of the architecture is not part > of the qualification, it is the amount of maintenance pressure involved. > Package maintainers have to put more effort into ensuring builds succe

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-18 Thread William ML Leslie
In case it isn't clear, the number of users of the architecture is not part of the qualification, it is the amount of maintenance pressure involved. Package maintainers have to put more effort into ensuring builds succeed for release architectures, which detracts from other work that needs to be do

Re: Cross-compilers i386->arm in Debian?

2002-10-28 Thread ml
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:00:18PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > ??? deb http://emdebian.sourceforge.net/emdebian unstable main > to your /etc/apt/sources.list > then > apt-get update > apt-get install task-cross-arm OK, I installed this and will try the tools the next days. Thanks a lot! I will report

toolchain problem, was: Cross-compilers i386->arm

2002-10-03 Thread ml
Hi, many thanks for all the hints on cross-tools! I think, that going "the Debian way" :-) would fit best. Therefore, I did neither try the precompiled binutils/gcc from emdebian (yet - maybe later...) nor did I want to compile "by hand". What I did ($ = user, # = root): # apt-get install toolc

Cross-compilers i386->arm in Debian?

2002-10-01 Thread ml
Hi, a friend of mine just bought a Sharp Zaurus, and I'm thinking about a Zaurus or IPAQ, too. Unfortunately, Debian does not fit on one of these, so I like to use Debian on a i386 to cross-compile some software for the arm machines. `apt-cache search cross compiler' shows gcc for some architectu