On 2009-10-12 23:19, Hector wrote:
> Package: eglibc
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> Hello,
>
> We would like to be able to have cross toolchains in the Debian archive.
> Currently, at emdebian.org we provide precompiled binaries but we need a way
> for the autobuilders to understand how to build it.
>
> The eglibc bit needed is a dpkg-cross -a$(DEB_HOST_ARCH) -b for the
> libraries and headers of a foreign architecture, that maybe you maintainers
> could provide as the regular build, but taking into account that it is a
> mid-hack until multiarch is ready and able to provide a nicer solution for
> this problem. As an alternative, we could upload a source package build
> depending on eglibc-source and trying to do all this magic. This can be
> somehow tricky as you probably already know libc and libgcc have circular
> dependencies, which prevents us from bootstrapping the compiler 100% from
> source.
>
> Comments are welcome, as I am unsure which it is the cleaner and nicer way
> of providing what libc{6,6.1}-$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)-cross provides and have the
> autobuilder happy.
>
glibc now supports being cross built, and cross compiled version for
major architectures are available in the archive. I therefore think this
bug can be closed.
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