+++ Dechesne, Nicolas [2010-07-26 14:39 +0200]: > On 07/25/2010 02:48 PM, Wookey wrote: > > +++ Dechesne, Nicolas [2010-07-23 14:46 +0200]: > > > >> > > You can use -X to exclude all the dependencies which are in fact > > arch-independent so: > > dpkg-cross -a armel -X pkg-config -i foo-dev_armel.deb > > will perhaps do the trick for you. > > > it is now working fine with the -X option. is it an acceptable solution > to cross install pkg-config package? I guess it would in turn install > pkg-config-armel-cross, right?
It is acceptable, but pointless. pkg-config does not contain any files which should be cross-installed so after dpkg-cross has processed it from pkg-config_0.25-1_armel.deb to pkg-config-armel-cross_0.25-1_all.deb you get a null package, containing nothing but a README file. This is a dependency which should be supplied by the native pkg-config package. > i will look into xdev, as recommended in this mailing list as well. > thanks a lot for your help. No problem. I am in the process of writing up an overview of the current state of cross-building in Debian and Ubuntu because there are a number of tools with different pros and cons and it's hard to understand what you should/shouldn't be doing if you come to it fresh. I hope that'll appear later this week, or maybe during Debconf. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
