On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 01:58:41PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:20:47 +0200 > ternaryd <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > > I will have a look at Thibault which I didn't even notice when googling > > for cross-compiling under debian. OTOH, I would have expected new things > > to work on sid before on squeeze. > > Nah, what happens is that everything breaks in unstable then gets fixed > during the release freeze when the speed of uploads slows down and we > get time to catch up. So we end up with the opposite - things in > unstable are nearly always broken, get fixed (possibly) very close to > the next stable release and then stay fixed in stable. That isn't going > to happen this time as the next stable release (wheezy) will not have a > fully-implemented MultiArch system capable of supporting > cross-building, so the recommendation for wheezy is still to use the > toolchains built and packaged for squeeze. It's *possible* (but only > possible) that Thibault's work could be backported to Wheezy after the > release. Thibault - do you want to comment on that?
s:Thibault:Thibaut: ;) Minus the C++ issue (libstdc++6-4.7-dev not being M-A: same), multiarch cross-toolchains are already usable. The gcc patches are based on sid's gcc-4.7 and can easily be backported to the version currently in wheezy. I've successfully built armel and armhf cross-compilers in the past, as well as an amd64 cross-compiler for i386. I've just successfully built a single-lib powerpc cross-compiler, but since ppc64 libs are not in the archive, it would probably make sense to have a multilib cross-compiler with ppc64 support. I'm working on that right now. Regards, Thibaut Girka. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120731145751.GA20473@localhost
