[Pkg-pascal-devel] status of cross-binutils

[Wookey]

On 2016-12-01 21:47 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Wookey,
> 
> Recently I got a cross build bug against FPC filed.¹ The reported did
> quite some digging himself and apparently a part of the solution is to
> (alternatively) depend on binutils-i586-linux-gnu (for i386) and similar
> for other archs. However, that package isn't in stretch, so I can't go
> that route now. Looking that the tracker package of cross-binutils, it
> seems that cross-binutils predates the current building of cross
> binutils by the binutils source package itself, correct? Shouldn't
> cross-binutils be removed

We have concluded that the cross-binutils packgage in Debian is now
superceded the cross-packages produced by binutils itself, and it has
just been removed.

>  and couldn't/shouldn't binutils also build a
> i586 and x86_64 version?

Yes, I think so. I'll look into this now and file a bug and/or fix accordingly.


Wookey
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