Extending pbuilder for cross-builds

[Junichi Uekawa]

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
> 
> --