[Soc-coordination] Final report — Multiarch cross-toolchains

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

W dniu 20.08.2012 09:59, Thibaut Girka pisze:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 08:41:19AM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>> W dniu 19.08.2012 21:42, Thibaut Girka pisze:

>>> Another solution would be to have another source package,
>>> responsible for building cross-compilers from gcc's source
>>> package. As far as I know, that's how it is done for ubuntu, but
>>> apt-get sourcing gcc-4.7 from a source package feels wrong to
>>> me...
>> 
>> I went that way with gcc-4.[4-7]-armel-cross in Ubuntu. Easy,
>> simple, some packages mangling required. Same way with
>> binutils-armel-cross. So please take a look at them.
> 
> I took a look at them! Although I have to admit I only remember
> looking at the “armel-cross-toolchain-base” branch, which boostraps
> the whole thing.

This package you should ignore as it will disappear once we get
cross-build-dependencies working.

> Now, I'm looking at the “gcc-4.x-cross” branch, and it is really
> close to what I had in mind. I would like to avoid the duplication in
> the control file and override files, though... I'll think about that,
> but it's post-GSoC, now ;)