On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 16:00 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 23 February 2015 at 14:12, Ian Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 18:55 +0200, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > >> We might want to push sunxi-tools into more Linux distributions than > >> just Debian and Fedora. And the maintainers of these distributions > >> could be not very much impressed with the current quality of the > >> sunxi-tools build process :) > > > > At least from my PoV as the Debian maintainer it's not so bad, mostly > > because there isn't very much of it and it's pretty simple/basic. > > > > The biggest issue from the Debian PoV is the binaries contained in the > > release -- Debian cannot (or does not want to) ship any binary which is > > not rebuilt as part of the package build, so I can't just use them. > > > > Rebuilding those binaries is hard because sadly cross-compilers are > > still a WIP in Debian and ensuring that an Arch:all package is built on > > a specific architecture (as someone in this thread suggested) is not > > easily achieved. > > You can install armhf packages on i386 just fine.
Ah yes, using multiarch that is now true. I'm not sure about cross-arch depends but sunxi-tools has a cross-arch recommends already (on u-boot:armhf) so perhaps this is a way out of the cross compiling quagmire (although that does seem to be progressing these days). Ian. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
