[I386-uclibc-devel] Re: question on hurd-i386 Debian architecture

[Pjotr Kourzanov]

Daniel Ruoso wrote:

>Em Seg, 2006-03-13 às 15:04 +0100, Pjotr Kourzanov escreveu:
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>>Also, looking at 
>>http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=i386-uclibc
>>I see only binutils and gcc. In the other thread "cross-compiling Debian 
>>packages"
>>I already mentioned that binutils and gcc are trivial to retarget 
>>nowadays.
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>Most of the work was made outside everything in irc. I'm too busy in the
>last months, so not much thing happened here. But... The cross-toolchain
>task was just one of them.
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>>The tricky bit is patching all those 25411 packages...
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>The idea now is to use SLIND packages to setup a buildd for uclibc-i386
>(this is the arch name they use, it seems easier to dpkg to handle it),
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This is similar to what I've done, too. See
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kurzanov/debian/.
One difference is that I use i386-uclibc (which seems more logical
to me). The other is that I would prefer to contribute all changes
back to Debian so that separate development effort is not required.

>I'm still too busy, and enerv (who was working with me in this project)
>got a new job and is quite busy also. So, we're in a deadlock in the
>moment.
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>This is a call for help :). If you want to help, just take over the task
>of setting a uclibc-i386 buildd up.
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What is the need for buildd?

>daniel
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