Scribit Neil Williams dies 13/11/2007 hora 17:02:
If you want to build an ARM toolchain to crossbuild for amd64 I'm not
going to stop you but don't expect me to debug it!!
But do your tools make it already possible for me to just ask for the
build of toolchains for an arbitrary list of target
Pierre THIERRY wrote:
Scribit Neil Williams dies 13/11/2007 hora 17:02:
If you want to build an ARM toolchain to crossbuild for amd64 I'm not
going to stop you but don't expect me to debug it!!
But do your tools make it already possible for me to just ask for the
build of toolchains for an
Scribit Neil Williams dies 11/11/2007 hora 12:44:
Emdebian supports amd64, i386 and powerpc as --build.
Why aren't all architectures supported by Debian supported?
Curiously,
Pierre
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:34:45 +0100
Pierre THIERRY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scribit Neil Williams dies 11/11/2007 hora 12:44:
Emdebian supports amd64, i386 and powerpc as --build.
Why aren't all architectures supported by Debian supported?
? Because I'm referring to --build, not --host ?
Hello Pierre,
Emdebian supports amd64, i386 and powerpc as --build.
Why aren't all architectures supported by Debian supported?
Why would you want an ARM/MIPS/M68K build host if you can cross
compile for them?
Anyway, i believe all arches could be supported, but does not make
much sense to
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:19:41 +0100
Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Samstag 10 November 2007 schrieb Neil Williams:
emdebian-tools will support any build system that can be used in
debian/rules. The build system should configure itself using only the
data provided by
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:50:51PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
AFAIK there's nothing to be fixed here. If you specify both --build and
--host, autoconf sees this as a request for cross-compiling. Of course,
invoking the native compiler as a cross-compiler should /generally/ give the
same
Am Dienstag 06 November 2007 schrieb Neil Williams:
The most common change is simply to retrieve the cross-building
metadata from dpkg-architecture in debian/rules:
http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianGuide
Does Emdebian support upcoming cmake-2.6 cross-compile support or is this
planned?
See:
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:02:31 +0100
Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Dienstag 06 November 2007 schrieb Neil Williams:
The most common change is simply to retrieve the cross-building
metadata from dpkg-architecture in debian/rules:
http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianGuide
Does
Am Samstag 10 November 2007 schrieb Neil Williams:
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:02:31 +0100
Hendrik Sattler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Dienstag 06 November 2007 schrieb Neil Williams:
The most common change is simply to retrieve the cross-building
metadata from dpkg-architecture in
Neil Williams wrote:
[snip]
As noted elsewhere in this thread, --build can be specified alone but is
usually only used for specialist builds for i686 on i386 etc. I fail to
see the merit of proposing that packages add --build to the normal
Debian build for no reason.
One reason is that a
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:18:57 -0800
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The most common change is simply to retrieve the cross-building
metadata from dpkg-architecture in debian/rules:
http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianGuide
On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:43:34 -0800
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a bad suggestion and was apparently made without referring to
the existing Debian instructions for how to handle packages that
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:43:34AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a bad suggestion and was apparently made without referring to
the existing Debian instructions for how to handle packages that use
Autoconf
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 12:05:55 -0500
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, it's used to prevent upstream packages from *wrongly* building for i686
on the i386 architecture, as I've now stated several times in this thread.
But why should that be added as part of a fix for cross-building? It
Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a bad suggestion and was apparently made without referring to
the existing Debian instructions for how to handle packages that use
Autoconf and friends.
Your assumption is wrong, I'm afraid. For one reason
Neil Williams wrote:
As noted elsewhere in this thread, --build can be specified alone but is
usually only used for specialist builds for i686 on i386 etc. I fail to
see the merit of proposing that packages add --build to the normal
Debian build for no reason.
As also noted elsewhere on this
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 20:06:55 +0100
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about making the snippet available in a .mk file that could just be
included, so that whenever there is an enhancement, everyone can take
advantage of it (but then, the snippet would need extra care to stay
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 06:54:04PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
So it is preferable for me to add --build to native builds even in a
patch that is meant to only affect the cross build? I'm sure some
maintainers will query why I'm setting --build outside the crossbuild.
Provide two distinct
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 08:18:12AM +, Neil Williams wrote:
Actually, /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz differs from
that by specifying $(confflags) instead of SYSTEM and using 'export'. I
don't see what benefit arises from the only other difference, ?=
instead of =. When
Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, then I'm even more mystified as to why you contradicted those
instructions and told people not to pass --build to configure for
non-cross-compile builds.
So it is preferable for me to add --build to native
This is one of the changes sought by Emdebian to support using Debian
on embedded devices where storage space is far from cheap and involves
running counter to the current Debian default of install everything
that works, every time, every package.
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:04:48PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
Emdebian has currently built 91 Debian source packages in the
preparation of the basic root filesystem and other testing of the
toolset. All of those have involved some level of patches to support
cross-building with CDBS packages
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:04:48PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
This is one of the changes sought by Emdebian to support using Debian
on embedded devices where storage space is far from cheap and involves
running counter to the current Debian default of install everything
that works, every
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:08:30 -0500
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:04:48PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
Emdebian has currently built 91 Debian source packages in the
preparation of the basic root filesystem and other testing of the
toolset. All of those
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:35:41 +0100
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:04:48PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
The most common change is simply to retrieve the cross-building
metadata from dpkg-architecture in debian/rules:
http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianGuide
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:23:39PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:35:41 +0100
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:04:48PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
The most common change is simply to retrieve the cross-building
metadata from
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 02:52:37PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:23:39PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:35:41 +0100
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:04:48PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
The most common
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:13:58PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:07:54PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
There is no need to specify --host when not cross-compiling, and
specifying
it will result in autoconf believing that the compiler should be invoked
as
a
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:07:54PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
There is no need to specify --host when not cross-compiling, and specifying
it will result in autoconf believing that the compiler should be invoked as
a cross-compiler. Sometimes this has strange side effects as well.
Hadn't
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:52:37 -0500
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:23:39PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
Shouldn't packages be using these --build and --host arguments already
even if not cross-building ?
No. There is no need to specify --build and
Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The most common change is simply to retrieve the cross-building
metadata from dpkg-architecture in debian/rules:
http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianGuide
DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=$(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=$(shell
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