Make the base system cross-buildable ==================================== It is very useful to be able to cross-build packages in Debian for many reasons, especially around faster dev times on slow architectures, and new ports. Making the whole archive crossbuildable is a huge goal, but making the bottom 140 or so packages needed for a port bootstrap cross-buildable is a reasonable goal. This work has already been done in Ubuntu (Raring) and should be upstreamed into Debian.
This goal is (somewhat) dependent on the CrossToolchains in the Archive goal. (It can still be done with external toolchains if need be, but it makes much more sense to have everything necessary maintained in the archive). Details ------- This needs: * all the build-deps of the bottom 140 packages to be multiarchified (should be largely done already, or at least bugs filed) * cross-building bugs in those packages fixed (many bugs already filed, copy the rest over from ubuntu). * autoconf cache variables to be set to supply info which can not be correctly determined in a cross environment (using dpkg-cross/cross-support) (Already done - needs testing) * preferably availability of crossbuild-essential packages, and corresponding toolchains in the archive. optional extras --------------- A cross-buildd running to check cross-buildability of packages should be set up so that maintainers get timely info on breakages, otherwise builds are quite likely to be broken when you want to use them. Like this one: http://people.linaro.org/~wookey/buildd/ Targets ------- In principle (and practice) this goal is architecture independent, but in practice the scope can be limited to amd64->arm(hf/el) building if it helps as that is where most current interest lies. The package set needs to be checked but should be very close to: eglibc pcre3 attr acl zlib hostname libsepol gpm ifupdown insserv module-init-tools python-defaults libselinux ncurses bash libpciaccess libpng slang base-files mawk makedev make xz-utils dpkg netbase base-files time manpages libxau libxdmcp libpthread-stubs diffutils tar cpio diffutils gmp gdbm sed tzdata base-passwd coreutils findutils libnfnetlink libffi iptables libelf debconf debianutils ucf xtrans x11proto-kb x11proto-input x11proto-render x11proto-xf86bigfont x11proto-core expat net-tools tcl8.5 tcp-wrappers ubuntu-keyring scowl postgresql-common openslp-dfsg procps psmisc phpmyadmin libusb mcrypt pixman libice bzip2 flex db4.8 dash iptables keyutils less sysvinit nano db-defaults grep dbconfig-comon linux-atm util-linux e2fsprogs ustr kmod dbus libsm cunit glib2.0 udev openssl initramfs-tools libgcrypt11 libidn wget sysfsutils iputils ppl binutils busybox libtasn1-3 libfribidi tcl8.5 sqlite3 db cracklib2 pam libcap2 libsemanage shadow iproute ppl cloog-ppl libbsd libedit dbus libgpg-error popt p11-kit gnutls26 libxau check perl libjpeg initramfs-tools debconf lsb tzdata makedev pam mountall readline cron glib2.0 nspr klibc nano less gcc-4.8 Resources --------- Advocates: * Wookey * Colin Watson Mailing list: [email protected] Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
