On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 11:54:40AM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: > I'm currently trying to compile armhf package for the rasberry pi on > a amd64 machine and naively though it would be easy to do with > multiarch. I screwed my machines(replaced the dynamic linkers, ftp > and other tools by arm binaries although I followed the scarce > available documentation). > > Natively compiling package as big as XBMC on the PI is a nightmare > and current tools fails really short because you: > 1) need a root filesystem for the machines. You can use debootstrap > but will need many additionnal packages that are yet not build, > 2) cannot install produced .deb in the root filesystem exept > by running them on qemu which is.. > > Any hint?
schroot will let you run a non-native chroot with qemu, and you can use this with sbuild for package building. sbuild now also has initial support or multiarch cross building. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- 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/20121007214110.gj18...@codelibre.net
