test build on foreign arch

[Jaromír Mikeš]

2015-05-10 10:09 GMT+02:00 Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu>:

> 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.
>

Ok I will try one again with yoshimi package ;)


> 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
>

Thank you for this ... I didn't know about it.
Looks quite complex ... I will have a look on this

regards

mira
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