On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:13:50PM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > * Many packages don't support cross-compiling, and those that do may > > have bugs in their makefiles that make cross-compiling either harder > > or impossible. > > * You can't run the test suites of the software you're compiling, at > > least not directly. > > * There's a serious problem with automatically installing > > build-dependencies. Dpkg-cross may help here, but there's no > > apt-cross (at least not TTBOMK); and implementing that may or may not > > be hard (due to the fact that build-dependencies do not contain > > information about whether a package is an arch:all package or not). > > scratchbox solves these problems.
[...] > Which is why scratchbox is a more interesting solution, as it only runs > those parts on target which can't be done on the host. Sounds interesting. Will you work on implementing this? Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
