Re: AW: Build of powerpcspe port

2011-03-17 Thread Baurzhan Ismagulov
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 05:32:34PM +0100, David Kuehling wrote: > > Just for better understanding: could you please outline some technical > > reasons why - Debian packages do not reliably build from a > > cross-compile environment > > Many complex software packages make assumptions that are incom

Re: AW: Build of powerpcspe port

2011-03-17 Thread David Kuehling
> "Wachholz," == Wachholz, Ruediger > writes: > Hi David, Kyle, > thanks a lot for your explanations so far. For the moment i expect my > part to contribute to use the existing port and report problems. We'll > see whether i'm able to to some more. > For the moment i'd like to make use

AW: Build of powerpcspe port

2011-03-17 Thread Wachholz, Ruediger
Hi David, Kyle, thanks a lot for your explanations so far. For the moment i expect my part to contribute to use the existing port and report problems. We'll see whether i'm able to to some more. For the moment i'd like to make use of your offer for more advice in asking some follow up questi

Re: Build of powerpcspe port

2011-03-17 Thread David Kuehling
> "Moffett," == Moffett, Kyle D writes: [..] >> I don't think that you will be successful building squeeze from >> scratch for powerpcspe. Some packages need patches to properly build >> on powerpcspe (i think that even includes libc6). Those packages are >> not even in 'unstable' but in 'u