Extending pbuilder for cross-builds
Junichi Uekawa
dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Tue Feb 24 13:20:18 UTC 2009
Hi,
I was reading this patch again. I am not quite sure about the utility
of having this merged to mainline.
Does this patch help with people doing amd64 / i386 cross-building
which seems to be popular? I guess amd64 / i386 would be a different
beast altogether, and need a different addition of additional
complexity.
At Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:15:28 +0600,
Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Let me introduce myself. My name is Mikhail Gusarov, and I'm working on
> small Debian-inspired Linux distribution for embedded devices
> (http://iplinux.org).
>
> For IPlinux I patched pbuilder to support cross-building of packages
> (see the patch [1]), and now would like to discuss the way to extend
> pbuilder, so such changes may be added without patching it.
>
> It seems that only change needed in pbuilder is abstracting obtaining of
> Build-Depends from debian/control: this operation can be made
> customizable and it should be provided with the arguments passed to
> pbuilder itself (e.g. it is necessary to have target architecture passed
> to build-depends parser to properly extract the cross-dependencies from
> the XCS-Cross-Build-Depends field, added by IPlinux).
>
> [1] http://git.openinkpot.org/~dottedmag/pbuilder.git/?a=commitdiff;h=d1f3ae0b371b530ee9dd726c32438e8f2787943f
>
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