Hi, This is the fourteenth report of Debian MIPS N32/N64 Port project, which is the final one. I would like to thank everyone that helped on making this project possible, the main project goal is accomplished.
The original goal is to work out four build-essential chroot (mips64, mips64el, mipsn32, and mipsn32el) and do archive rebuild for at least mips64 and mips64el, but later we amended it to making an mips64el port first. We've tried to build mips64 and N32 toolchains resolving all the problems, but we have so limited building resource to do rebuilds that even mips64el is going forward slowly using the two Loongson 3A notebooks provided by Lemote, and big endian hardware set up by Cavium is ready a bit late for this SoC project. We've created a set of cross toolchain on amd64 based on Ubuntu's armhf cross toolchain with changes that deal with MIPS's tri-arch configuration (o32, n32, and n64). With the help of multi-arch and the cross toolchain, we are able to cross build a native chroot with build-essential available, and started the archive rebuild process with the help from my mentors. In the past month, we've tried to start the rebuild several times though we met several set up problems so the current running rebuild was started for about three weeks. So far we've got ~5000 successful builds, tracking unstable. There are several critical points and circular dependencies (like Perl, Python, and crypto stuff, etc) we've resolved during the past two months so the way of this rebuild is quite clear till now. But the rebuild is slowing down because there are more issues to be resolved and larger packages is flowing into the queue as their build dependencies is being satisfied. Thanks again for the opportunity to participate GSoC and try out something that is completely new! Thank you, Eleanor Chen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADkxy8qgGqCxT-DT_88dg2aLtDc-eGodD5H69bx=wspfqxc...@mail.gmail.com
