Re: dpkg-cross maintenance status

2002-01-07 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
YAEGASHI Takeshi wrote: > Good summary. This reminds me of most troubles I've ever suffered > when cross compiling. :-> Thanks. To summarize those things, I have done many things. One more thing. Some packages use snapshot of software, and use --enable-maintainer-mode to generate manuals by

Re: dpkg-cross maintenance status

2002-01-07 Thread YAEGASHI Takeshi
In the article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, NIIBE Yutaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Schleef wrote: > > Perhaps some day, we might have cross-compiling as part of Debian > > policy (or at least a tag for cross-compiliability), but I > > certainly wouldn't advocate that now, as it would cause too

Re: dpkg-cross maintenance status

2002-01-07 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
David Schleef wrote: > Perhaps some day, we might have cross-compiling as part of Debian > policy (or at least a tag for cross-compiliability), but I > certainly wouldn't advocate that now, as it would cause too much > turmoil. Things I've noticed: (1) Original software is not ready for cr

Re: dpkg-cross maintenance status

2002-01-06 Thread David Schleef
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:44:16AM +0900, YAEGASHI Takeshi wrote: > > Yes, for embedded platforms with limited resources cross compling is > quite important, especially when you want to build a large set of > software such as Debian distrubution. > > But as you know we currently have much troubul

Re: dpkg-cross maintenance status

2002-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:44:16AM +0900, YAEGASHI Takeshi wrote: > At Thu, 03 Jan 2002 21:07:33 -0700, > Matt Taggart wrote: > > > Is there anyone who utilize dpkg-cross? > > I used it for bootstrapping Debian on hppa, it's *very* useful. I didn't > > need > > to make too many changes. I stil

Re: dpkg-cross maintenance status

2002-01-05 Thread YAEGASHI Takeshi
Hi, At Thu, 03 Jan 2002 21:07:33 -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > > Is there anyone who utilize dpkg-cross? > > I used it for bootstrapping Debian on hppa, it's *very* useful. I didn't need > to make too many changes. I still need to submit a patch for hppa support. At > the time I was too distrac

Re: dpkg-cross maintenance status

2002-01-03 Thread Matt Taggart
YAEGASHI Takeshi writes... > Is there anyone who utilize dpkg-cross? I used it for bootstrapping Debian on hppa, it's *very* useful. I didn't need to make too many changes. I still need to submit a patch for hppa support. At the time I was too distracted by having a native toolchain to spend t

Re: dpkg-cross maintenance status

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
YAEGASHI Takeshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to BTS, it seems that dpkg-cross has been left unmaintained > for more than 1 year... Have you asked the maintainer?

dpkg-cross maintenance status

2002-01-03 Thread YAEGASHI Takeshi
Hi, Is there anyone who utilize dpkg-cross? According to BTS, it seems that dpkg-cross has been left unmaintained for more than 1 year... I want to add SuperH support to dpkg-cross (I've just reported as the wishlist, Bug#127723), and there are several bugs I want to fix too. Is there any hope