Re: State of cross compiler packages

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Langasek
ncern. And besides, while I am grateful for Matthias's help sponsoring these cross-compiler packages into the archive, it's not his responsibility to maintain them, it's ours - so if we have to step up our game to keep the packages usable in the face of gcc uploads becaus

Re: Host strip corrupts cross-built binaries

2010-09-29 Thread Steve Langasek
k Mitchell considers it a binutils bug, but we don't know how he expects to remedy this. I think we need the Toolchain WG to pick this up. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on,

Re: the linaro toolchain and older arm versions

2010-10-05 Thread Steve Langasek
o is targeting should require a pre-Thumb-2 U-Boot, so I'm very doubtful that the ongoing effort to maintain such a toolchain in Ubuntu is justified (unless we find that it becomes substantially easier with multiarch, I guess, but we're a ways away from that yet). Cheers, -- Steve

Re: Fwd: RE: [RFC][PATCH] ARM: ptrace: remove single-step emulation code

2011-01-19 Thread Steve Langasek
by the toolchain WG, please coordinate those with Avik Sil (Cc:ed) who is shepherding these packages for us. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the wor

Announcing the Linaro porting jam

2011-02-15 Thread Steve Langasek
making the software in Ubuntu run better on ARM? Stop on by the #linaro channel on irc.linaro.org today! -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Cross compiler ITP (armel)

2011-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
se team, and buildd team about what a policy for this would need to look like - currently the policy remains the existing one, that all build-dependencies must be satisfied by the current architecture. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free

Re: [Activity] May 17-21

2011-05-31 Thread Steve Langasek
the old places? Yes, it's a hack, and maybe > such a package would only live in a PPA. It would certainly be a hack; the set of libraries you would be providing compat symlinks for is arbitrary, and you can't just symlink the directories together. I think PPA-only would, sadly, be the