On Thu, 09 Mar 2006, Peter Kourzanov wrote:
> For most of the packages, what is so different in cross-compilation in
> comparison to native?
On my limited cross-compiling knowledge (and nearly zero experience), you
have three classes of packages:
1. Those that just compile, link and ship -- thes
Am Donnerstag, 9. März 2006 23:32 schrieb Steve Langasek:
> Um, the native target for Debian systems is i486-linux-gnu, not
> i686-linux-gnu -- the symlink i486-linux-gnu-gcc-4.0 *does* exist. If
> you're using anything other than i486-linux-gnu as your host string for a
> Debian package, then asi
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:14:58PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 9. März 2006 03:12 schrieb Russ Allbery:
> > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I'm one of the people who actually helped design the GNU Makefile and
> > > configure standards, and --host does not "
Am Donnerstag, 9. März 2006 22:26 schrieb Peter Kourzanov:
> ship with symbolic links, e.g.
>
> >gcc -> gcc-4.0 -> i686-linux-gcc-4.0
> >
>
> Which it already does:-)
The other direction but your are right :)
I looked for i686-linux-gcc when in fact it is i486-linux-gcc.
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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Thu, 09 Mar 2006, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
`--host=HOST-TYPE'
the type of system on which the package will run. By default it
is the same as the build machine. Specifying it enables the
cross-compilation mode.
That's insane. However, i
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> That's the old way. Autoconf changed this in the current releases.
>> Now, specifying --host signals that you're cross-compiling, whether it
>> disagrees or not.
>> Yes, this was not a backward compatib
Hendrik Sattler wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 9. März 2006 03:12 schrieb Russ Allbery:
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm one of the people who actually helped design the GNU Makefile and
configure standards, and --host does not "signal that you're
cross-compiling." What sign
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I'm one of the people who actually helped design the GNU Makefile and
>> configure standards, and --host does not "signal that you're
>> cross-compiling." What signals that you are cross-compiling is a
Russ Allbery wrote:
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm one of the people who actually helped design the GNU Makefile and
configure standards, and --host does not "signal that you're
cross-compiling." What signals that you are cross-compiling is a
disagreement between --hos
Am Donnerstag, 9. März 2006 20:17 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> Or do you want to do this to avoid an ifeq..endif block in debian/rules
> files that are currently required to detect if --host should be issued to
> configure ?
Personally just because I don't like the currently different na
On Thu, 09 Mar 2006, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> > `--host=HOST-TYPE'
> > the type of system on which the package will run. By default it
> > is the same as the build machine. Specifying it enables the
> > cross-compilation mode.
>
> That's insane. However, it doen't say anything abo
Am Donnerstag, 9. März 2006 03:12 schrieb Russ Allbery:
> Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'm one of the people who actually helped design the GNU Makefile and
> > configure standards, and --host does not "signal that you're
> > cross-compiling." What signals that you are cross
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> `--host=HOST-TYPE'
>> the type of system on which the package will run. By default it
>> is the same as the build machine. Specifying it enables the
>> cross-compilation mode.
>> There's a long
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> `--host=HOST-TYPE'
> the type of system on which the package will run. By default it
> is the same as the build machine. Specifying it enables the
> cross-compilation mode.
>
> There's a long archived discussion on the Autoconf mailing lis
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm one of the people who actually helped design the GNU Makefile and
> configure standards, and --host does not "signal that you're
> cross-compiling." What signals that you are cross-compiling is a
> disagreement between --host and --build.
Tha
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:15:46PM +0100, Pjotr Kourzanov wrote:
>> Steve Langasek wrote:
>> >Well, you shouldn't pass --host *except* when cross-compiling; the
>> >autotools-dev package shows how to do this. But at least --build is always
>> >a sane t
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:15:46PM +0100, Pjotr Kourzanov wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> >Well, you shouldn't pass --host *except* when cross-compiling; the
> >autotools-dev package shows how to do this. But at least --build is always
> >a sane thing to specify, and usually saves you from upstre
Steve Langasek wrote:
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:17:19AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
Pjotr Kourzanov wrote:
Yes, but the point was that mainteners get a warning from the
regular build system that their package is not cross-compile friendly.
That needs to hook into dpkg-buildpack
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:17:19AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> Pjotr Kourzanov wrote:
> >Yes, but the point was that mainteners get a warning from the
> >regular build system that their package is not cross-compile friendly.
> >That needs to hook into dpkg-buildpackage then, I'm afraid...
> P
Pjotr Kourzanov wrote:
Yes, but the point was that mainteners get a warning from the
regular build system that their package is not cross-compile friendly.
That needs to hook into dpkg-buildpackage then, I'm afraid...
Please don't do this. Some packages choose to not be cross-compilation
fri
Pjotr Kourzanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Please just add the recommended --host and --build makefile snippet
>>> and feed that to configure in *all* packages. It is better in the
>>> long run, and for many pac
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:39:05PM +0100, Pjotr Kourzanov wrote:
> Yes, but the point was that mainteners get a warning from the
> regular build system that their package is not cross-compile friendly.
> That needs to hook into dpkg-buildpackage then, I'm afraid...
Why not add a lintian check inst
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Fri, 03 Mar 2006, Pjotr Kourzanov wrote:
I suppose the patches to debian/rules would be welcome on this list,
no?
I have no idea. Anyway, if you want to make sure I read something you post
in d-devel, please CC me.
ok
And what about add
On Fri, 03 Mar 2006, Pjotr Kourzanov wrote:
> I suppose the patches to debian/rules would be welcome on this list,
> no?
I have no idea. Anyway, if you want to make sure I read something you post
in d-devel, please CC me.
> And what about adding some magic to dpkg-buildpackage.orig to
> monitor
Russ Allbery wrote:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Please just add the recommended --host and --build makefile snippet and
feed that to configure in *all* packages. It is better in the long run,
and for many packages that is enough to have it cross-compile correct
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Frank Küster:
>> >> Were can I read up on how and why I should do this?
>> >
>> > /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz
>>
>> Thanks - but I th
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Also, as a part of recent maintenance update, the current "Debian New
> Maintainers' Guide" has following pointer at the start of "Chapter 3 -
> Modifying the source":
>
> Please make sure to read /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz
> before pro
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:30:14PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Frank Küster:
> > >> Were can I read up on how and why I should do this?
> > >
> > > /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.g
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Please just add the recommended --host and --build makefile snippet and
> feed that to configure in *all* packages. It is better in the long run,
> and for many packages that is enough to have it cross-compile correctly.
Okay, will do.
T
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> If config.sub is not needed, I am almost sure that --host is not needed. Nor
> is --build, or --target. They are not supposed to be able to work without
> config.sub to canonize them.
Very well, I have verified this now to be _wrong_.
Au
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Pjotr Kourzanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>In a number of packages (e.g., busybox, dash and many more) the
> >> debian/rules Makefile calls ./configure without --host argument. This
> >> makes the life q
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Pjotr Kourzanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>In a number of packages (e.g., busybox, dash and many more) the
>> debian/rules Makefile calls ./configure without --host argument. This
>> makes the life quite difficult for cross-compilation - for every
>
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Frank Küster:
> >> Were can I read up on how and why I should do this?
> >
> > /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz
>
> Thanks - but I think this should be documented at a more visible place.
> If it's
Per Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frank Küster:
>> Were can I read up on how and why I should do this?
>
> /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz
Thanks - but I think this should be documented at a more visible place.
If it's not the policy, developer's reference.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Were can I read up on how and why I should do this? AFAIR, the policy
/usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz has advice on how to run
configure scripts sanely.
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Frank Küster:
> Were can I read up on how and why I should do this?
/usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz
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Pjotr Kourzanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
>In a number of packages (e.g., busybox, dash and many more) the
> debian/rules Makefile calls ./configure without --host argument. This
> makes the life quite difficult for cross-compilation - for every
> such package I need to a
Dear developers,
In a number of packages (e.g., busybox, dash and many more) the
debian/rules Makefile calls ./configure without --host argument. This
makes the life quite difficult for cross-compilation - for every
such package I need to add --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) to every
configure inv
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