Re: crosstool-NG Debian packaging

[Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven at gmail dot com>]

Chris,

> On Feb 11, 2016, at 8:20 PM, Chris Packham <Chris.Packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> On 02/11/2016 09:32 AM, Chris Packham wrote:
>> Hi Bryan, Andrew,
>> 
>> I see that there is some movement on packaging crosstool-NG for Debian.
>> This is relevant to my interests and I have subscribed to your mailing
>> list :).
>> 
>> Is there an open Debian bug for this? I've found a few older ones but
>> they all seem to have timed out due to lack of interest.
>> 
>> I'm also interested in the possibility of generating debian packages for
>> the toolchains themselves.
>> 
>> We're in the process of updating our cross toolchain(s) and being able
>> to distribute .deb files to our developers is quite attractive. Is
>> anyone looking at such a capability? If not any pointers?
>> 
> 
> For those that are interested. I've put something together that kind of
> works for me
> 
>   https://github.com/cpackham/cross-toolchain
> 
> I'll need to do some more testing and add the additional configs I need
> but it looks promising.

Just curious, but are you installing the prefix dir to the root of the build machine?
Just fyi, the cool thing about the toolchain that crosstool-ng produces is relocatable. ;)
(i.e. you can build it in $HOME/x-tools/$CT_TARGET and move it to /opt/$CT_TARGET or where ever you want)

Cheers,

-Bryan

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