test build on foreign arch

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi,

2015-05-10 9:30 GMT+02:00 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to test build of package on foreign arch (mips mipsel and
> powerpc).
> Is there some easy way to do it ?
>
> Or is it fine to do it by uploading to unstable?
IMO it is perfectly fine especially if the package is small and you
expect it to build.

If you don't want to do that, there is qemu-user-static:
Package: qemu-user-static
...
Description-en: QEMU user mode emulation binaries (static version)
 QEMU is a fast processor emulator: currently the package supports
 ARM, CRIS, i386, M68k (ColdFire), MicroBlaze, MIPS, PowerPC, SH4,
 SPARC and x86-64 emulation. By using dynamic translation it achieves
 reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs.
 .
 This package provides the user mode emulation binaries, built
 statically. In this mode QEMU can launch Linux processes compiled for
 one CPU on another CPU.

See also:
https://wiki.debian.org/QemuUserEmulation
https://wiki.debian.org/EmDebian/CrossDebootstrap

Cheers,
Balint