On Saturday 29. November 2014 01.50.30 Wookey wrote: > After a long period of brokenness, cross-toolchains for debian are back. > > We dropped the ball rather over Wheezy as we expected new > multiarch-built cross-toolchains to be ready much sooner than this so > failed to take care of wheezy properly which has been a pain for a lot > of people. Sorry about that. > > However there are now some working cross-toolchains again, in time for > Jessie. These did not make it into Jessie proper, due to > infrastructure changes which are needed for packages with cross-arch > dependencies, but the deadline did provide the impetus to get it all > working. > > These are essentially the same packages that have been available from > secretsauce.net for much of 2014, but covering more architectures.
Thanks for doing this! I see that i386 is now provided for those of us still using older hardware. [...] > The same cross-toolchains are also available in unstable, but are not > always installable due to multiarch skew (after a new gcc, libc or > linux upload). And they have caused some controversy so expect changes > and instability. Also mips is currently broken as the native compiler > didn't build in the current upload. What is the status here? I see that only amd64 packages are available, which is fairly unusual for Debian where the aim is usually to support all available architectures. With this in mind, I decided to try and build the cross-gcc-4.9-mipsel source package with pbuilder, having installed the build prerequisites. I had to manually add the foreign architecture within the pbuilder chroot in order to satisfy dependencies: sudo /usr/sbin/pbuilder --login --save-after-login dpkg --add-architecture mipsel apt-get update Otherwise, various :mipsel dependencies cannot be resolved and you get strange suggestions. Here's one example: ---- Package libc6-dev:mipsel is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source However the following packages replace it: libc6-dev-amd64 libc-dev-bin ---- If there's a proper way of doing this multi-arch setup with pbuilder, it would be useful to know. Fortunately, the build process completed successfully, suggesting that there is nothing (at the moment of writing) *technically* preventing the toolchain from being built for at least i386 in unstable, and hopefully for other architectures too. I'll press on with the unstable toolchains, since they are presumably the future of cross-building on Debian. However, thanks again for making packages available for jessie and for i386, and thanks to those who got the toolchains ready for unstable, too! Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-embedded-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503282319.26216.p...@boddie.org.uk
