> Nikita V. Youshchenko writes: > > > so we can start converting the packages you > > > mentioned to biarch. > > > > Oh, please do! > > This at last will make it possible to build biarch gcc cross compiler > > package for x86 target in the debian way (i.e. using current > > dpkg-cross-based approach). > > I'm not sure, if I understand the "Debian way" of doing cross compiler > biarch builds.
By the "Debian way" of building cross-compilers, I mean the cross target in the debian gcc source packages, that I've maintaned for some time (this job was somewhat suspended for some months, but now I hope it will be completely resumed). These are now accepted as the default toolchain by debian-embedded people. The problem with x86-amd64 biarch is (was?) that header file diversions of amd-64-libs are completely incompatable with dpkg-cross. When I discovered that, I decided to give up and wait - at that time, there have been some talks about implementing multiarch support in debian; I hoped that this will make base library packages cleaner, so dpkg-cross'ing them will not cause problems. Now it looks clear that multiarch support is not going to be done. However, the above posting I replied two looked as an alternative chance to get dpkg-cross'able 64bit libc packages on x86. If this will be done, I expect i486 target could by fixed easilly - so things like ppc-hosted biarch-x86-targetted cross-compiler package will be built ok. P.S. I've recently seen several uploads of binutils package by you. If you are going to be (co)maintainer of binutils in Debian, could you please help to include cross-binutils-buiding patches into official package? Raphael Bossek and I have are updating those periodically inside #231707, and debian-embedded people are using the results of these patches, but we never got any sensible reply from binutils maintainer(s). If it is possible to get any progress here, I will post updated cross-binutils patch for 2.16 ASAP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
