Extending pbuilder for cross-builds

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

What you are trying to do sounds interesting, but you would want to
elaborate further on what kind of cross building you have in mind.

I'm pretty much satisfied with running qemubuilder myself, so I don't
quite understand what you are doing here.

What kind of packages can be cross built (are they Debian official
packages)?

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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