On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 01:36:35PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > For toolchain packages like gcc-4.7, you can't deduce the build dependencies > automatically. Cross building the gcc-4.7 package (not building the cross > compiler) requires additional build dependencies, which for a native build are > used from the current build. These are: [...] > If these should not be hard-coded in the build tools, then we do need some > syntax for the control file to specify these cross build dependencies, best > in a > way which is independent of the target architecture.
I think that's covered by something along the lines of Guillem's profiles proposal, which would allow such things to be annotated with <cross>. I'd still like to be able to deduce as much as possible automatically, though, because given the relatively small number of people who care about cross-building it takes a very long time to annotate lots of packages manually; the more we can do automatically the better. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
