Re: cross-build-essential

2012-11-14 Thread Wookey
in the repo has the native bits commented out so is effectively a separate (but rather similar) source package: http://people.debian.org/~wookey/bootstrap/ubunturepo/pool/main/c/cross-build-essential/ (the testing has been done in Ubuntu as the toolchains are already in-archive, so it would need a few

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-07-16 Thread Stephen Kitt
such combinations with cross-build-essential? Multiarch should support this and dpkg-architecture already does. So if someone wants to maintain toolchains to do this then adding an entry to cross-build-essential is easy. (We didn't put everything possible supported by dpkg in, because

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Simon McVittie s...@debian.org writes: On 28/06/12 10:17, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Say I want to have the build-essential for i386 installed on amd64. I could install build-essential:i386, replacing gcc/g++:amd64 with gcc/g++:i386. Wouldn't that give me everything needed to cross-compile

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
for a crossbuild-essential-arch packages. http://odin1.pehjota.net/~pj/debian-bootstrap/build-essential/ The initial patches there add crossbuild-essential packages to the build-essential source, which is easy to do but leads to some questions. 1) Some of the packages that cross-build-essential

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On 28/06/12 10:17, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Say I want to have the build-essential for i386 installed on amd64. I could install build-essential:i386, replacing gcc/g++:amd64 with gcc/g++:i386. Wouldn't that give me everything needed to cross-compile for i386? For evolutions of the same CPU

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Svante Signell
) kFreeBSD:amd64 or Hurd:i386. Any plans to support such combinations with cross-build-essential? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1340876597.32095.129.ca

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On 28/06/12 10:43, Svante Signell wrote: The situation is even more complicated if compiling for different OSes: Like as host (build) Linux:i386 and guest (target) kFreeBSD:amd64 or Hurd:i386. Any plans to support such combinations with cross-build-essential? It shouldn't differ from

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Wookey
+++ Svante Signell [2012-06-28 11:43 +0200]: The situation is even more complicated if compiling for different OSes: Like as host (build) Linux:i386 and guest (target) kFreeBSD:amd64 or Hurd:i386. Any plans to support such combinations with cross-build-essential? Multiarch should support

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:29:20AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: On 28/06/12 10:17, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Say I want to have the build-essential for i386 installed on amd64. I could install build-essential:i386, replacing gcc/g++:amd64 with gcc/g++:i386. Wouldn't that give me

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-28 Thread Adam Borowski
such combinations with cross-build-essential? It shouldn't differ from compiling for different CPUs: the key problem in cross-compilation is your build system can't run your host system's binaries, which you can arrive at either via differing OSs or differing CPUs. (Or both, of course.) It's not just

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-27 Thread Wookey
://odin1.pehjota.net/~pj/debian-bootstrap/build-essential/ The initial patches there add crossbuild-essential packages to the build-essential source, which is easy to do but leads to some questions. 1) Some of the packages that cross-build-essential depends on (cross-compiler packages) are not yet

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-06-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:04:26 +0100 Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: A bit of background here for those who aren't following all the details: We are working towards having cross-compilers in the archive. The plan is for those toolchains to use multiarch so that the existing libc:arch

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-25 Thread DrEagle
Hi all, I have not so time available too, but : - I need a good cross toolchain solution for armel/armhf. - I use debian on my sheevas and desktops - I have allready made a port of DoudouLinux Debian based system on Genesi SmartBook - I have a lot of others projects still in progress or in

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-23 Thread Wookey
+++ Paul Wise [2012-01-21 20:37 +0800]: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Wookey wrote: Currently on Debian you'll need to have made the emdebian repositories available because otherwise you won't find any cross-compilers, but hopefully we'll have them in the main archive in the not-too

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Wookey wrote: Currently on Debian you'll need to have made the emdebian repositories available because otherwise you won't find any cross-compilers, but hopefully we'll have them in the main archive in the not-too distant. Whats the status/blockers for getting

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:37:58 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Wookey wrote: Currently on Debian you'll need to have made the emdebian repositories available because otherwise you won't find any cross-compilers, but hopefully we'll have them in the

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-21 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 21/01/2012 16:29, Neil Williams a écrit : On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:37:58 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Wookey wrote: Currently on Debian you'll need to have made the emdebian repositories available because otherwise you won't find any

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:03:11 +0100 Vincent Danjean vdanjean...@free.fr wrote: Le 21/01/2012 16:29, Neil Williams a écrit : The cross-dependency resolution is yet another feature of Debian which is waiting for MultiArch... While waiting on proper MultiArch in Debian (when will dpkg with

cross-build-essential

2012-01-19 Thread Wookey
I've thought for a long time that a package like build-essential for cross-building would be a really good idea. Currently to get the right tools and libs installed for cross-building you need to do slightly different things on different distros Having just been looking at sbuild cross-support

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-19 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:10:28PM +, Wookey wrote: Having just been looking at sbuild cross-support it becomes clear that something like this would be a very useful adititon. Can anyone see any reason why we shouldn't just have $arch-crossbuild-essential which depends on the right

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:10:28 + Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: I've thought for a long time that a package like build-essential for cross-building would be a really good idea. +1 Currently to get the right tools and libs installed for cross-building you need to do slightly different

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-19 Thread Wookey
+++ Neil Williams [2012-01-19 13:02 +]: On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:10:28 + Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: I've thought for a long time that a package like build-essential for cross-building would be a really good idea. +1 It should probably depend on build-essential itself as

Re: cross-build-essential

2012-01-19 Thread Karl Goetz
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:10:28 + Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: I've thought for a long time that a package like build-essential for cross-building would be a really good idea. Currently to get the right tools and libs installed for cross-building you need to do slightly different