On Friday 16 January 2004 5:42 pm, Andy MacKay wrote: > An alternative no one has mentioned is creating a "pure" AMD64 Debian > arch and adding a suite of i386 cross-development packages to the > distribution. That would go some way towards solving the problem at > hand without making all the Debian developers' lives more difficult, and > give architectures besides AMD64 (IA64 is another notable one where it > might be interesting) the ability to build i386 packages without having > to resort to lots of library and compiler building and installation in > /usr/local/i386-cross (or something similar, which is what I'll probably > have to do if Debian doesn't offer a more convenient solution).
The toolchain-source and dpkg-cross packages already do exactly what you are suggesting. Paul
