Re: cross-build-essential

2012-11-14 Thread Wookey
the build-essential and crossbuild-essential- packages. Or having this done as a separate source package. It was designed to be merged, but the version in the repo has the native bits commented out so is effectively a separate (but rather similar) source package: http://people.debian.org/~wookey/b

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-07-16 Thread Stephen Kitt
plans to support such combinations with > > cross-build-essential? > > Multiarch should support this and dpkg-architecture already does. So > if someone wants to maintain toolchains to do this then adding an > entry to cross-build-essential is easy. (We didn't put everything > possi

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Simon McVittie writes: > On 28/06/12 10:17, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Say I want to have the build-essential for i386 installed on amd64. >> I could install build-essential:i386, replacing gcc/g++:amd64 with >> gcc/g++:i386. Wouldn't that give me everything needed to cross-compile >> for i38

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Adam Borowski
plans to support such combinations with > > cross-build-essential? > > It shouldn't differ from compiling for different CPUs: the key problem > in cross-compilation is "your build system can't run your host system's > binaries", which you can arrive at e

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:29:20AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 28/06/12 10:17, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Say I want to have the build-essential for i386 installed on amd64. > > I could install build-essential:i386, replacing gcc/g++:amd64 with > > gcc/g++:i386. Wouldn't that give me eve

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Wookey
+++ Svante Signell [2012-06-28 11:43 +0200]: > > The situation is even more complicated if compiling for different OSes: > Like as host (build) Linux:i386 and guest (target) kFreeBSD:amd64 or > Hurd:i386. Any plans to support such combinations with > cross-build-essential? M

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On 28/06/12 10:43, Svante Signell wrote: > The situation is even more complicated if compiling for different OSes: > Like as host (build) Linux:i386 and guest (target) kFreeBSD:amd64 or > Hurd:i386. Any plans to support such combinations with > cross-build-essential? It shouldn&#

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Svante Signell
el:amd64 contains. The situation is even more complicated if compiling for different OSes: Like as host (build) Linux:i386 and guest (target) kFreeBSD:amd64 or Hurd:i386. Any plans to support such combinations with cross-build-essential? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ.

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On 28/06/12 10:17, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Say I want to have the build-essential for i386 installed on amd64. > I could install build-essential:i386, replacing gcc/g++:amd64 with > gcc/g++:i386. Wouldn't that give me everything needed to cross-compile > for i386? For evolutions of the same

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
progress in this area. Thanks to Patrick McDermmot > (GSOC student) we have a patch to add support to build-essential for a > crossbuild-essential- packages. > > http://odin1.pehjota.net/~pj/debian-bootstrap/build-essential/ > > The initial patches there add crossbuild-essential pac

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:04:26 +0100 Wookey wrote: > A bit of background here for those who aren't following all the details: > > We are working towards having cross-compilers in the archive. The plan > is for those toolchains to use multiarch so that the existing > libc: linux-libc-dev: libgcc1:

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-27 Thread Wookey
h to add support to build-essential for a crossbuild-essential- packages. http://odin1.pehjota.net/~pj/debian-bootstrap/build-essential/ The initial patches there add crossbuild-essential packages to the build-essential source, which is easy to do but leads to some questions. 1) Some of the packa

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-25 Thread DrEagle
Hi all, I have not so time available too, but : - I need a good cross toolchain solution for armel/armhf. - I use debian on my sheevas and desktops - I have allready made a port of DoudouLinux Debian based system on Genesi SmartBook - I have a lot of others projects still in progress or in standby

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-23 Thread Wookey
+++ Paul Wise [2012-01-21 20:37 +0800]: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Wookey wrote: > > > 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

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:03:11 +0100 Vincent Danjean wrote: > Le 21/01/2012 16:29, Neil Williams a écrit : > > The cross-dependency resolution is yet another feature of Debian which > > is waiting for MultiArch... > > While waiting on proper MultiArch in Debian (when will dpkg with > multiarch p

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-21 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 21/01/2012 16:29, Neil Williams a écrit : > On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:37:58 +0800 > Paul Wise wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Wookey wrote: >> >>> Currently on Debian you'll need to have made the emdebian repositories >>> available because otherwise you won't find any cross-compilers

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:37:58 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Wookey wrote: > > > 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 arch

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Wookey wrote: > 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. Whats the status/blockers for getti

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-19 Thread Karl Goetz
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:10:28 + Wookey wrote: > I've thought for a long time that a package like build-essential for > cross-building would be a really good idea. > > Currently to get the right tools and libs installed for cross-building > you need to do slightly different things on differen

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-19 Thread Wookey
+++ Neil Williams [2012-01-19 13:02 +]: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:10:28 + > Wookey wrote: > > > I've thought for a long time that a package like build-essential for > > cross-building would be a really good idea. > > +1 > > It should probably depend on build-essential itself as a starti

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:10:28 + Wookey 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 differ

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-19 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:10:28PM +, Wookey wrote: > 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

cross-build-essential

2012-01-19 Thread Wookey
I've thought for a long time that a package like build-essential for cross-building would be a really good idea. 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 i