On 1 June 2015 at 12:50, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote: > There are flavours of arm, so make sure you emulate the right one. Also you > may need to make separate compiles for pi and pi2.
Thanks Nick for the hints - I haven't played around with this sort of thing before (well, packaging yes, dealing with interesting architectures no). The target is the Pi 1 model B, so I think - based what I can glean from Debian's wiki[1] - that my best bet is Debian Wheezy for armel. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi > For a (large) build system that will build for various architectures you > could look at the openelec build system, although it is a bit complex to > study in one afternoon. Thanks, I'll take a look at that, too :^) > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Timothy Musson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Someone's asked me to provide a Raspbianized binary package of a piece >> of software I maintain. Figuring it's likely doable with QEMU, I said >> I'd give it a try. [...] >> But it occurs to me that I probably don't need to emulate a Pi at all. >> I can probably get away with running an arm version of Debian on QEMU >> and making the the .deb package with that. -- Tim Musson http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~trmusson/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/timothymnz/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
