Re: Installation of Emdebian cross development tools on a Ubuntu host

Hi Patrick,

Keeping mail on-list it is always much preferred.

2011/4/18 Patrick Doyle <[email protected]>:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Hector Oron <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2011/4/17 Patrick Doyle <[email protected]>:
>>> What is the recommended/proper way to install the Emdebian cross
>>> development tools on a Ubuntu host?
>>
>> Ubuntu is shipping its own toolchain version for armel, Marcin creates them.
>>
> How would I install that?  This didn't work:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install linux-libc-dev-armel-cross libc6-armel-cross
> libc6-dev-armel-cross binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi
> gcc-4.4-arm-linux-gnueabi g++-4.4-arm-linux-gnueabi
> [sudo] password for wpd:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Couldn't find package linux-libc-dev-armel-cross

It works for me, I have no idea, maybe Marcin can help here?

>>> I found http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2011/04/msg00056.html
>>> (which I just realized was posted only 4 days ago) where the OP has
>>> encountered the same problem installing the MIPS toolchain as I have
>>> encountered in attempting to install the armel toolchain, namely:
>>>
>>>  cpp-4.4-arm-linux-gnueabi: Depends: libmpfr4 which is a virtual package.
>>>  G++-4.4-arm-linux-gnueabi: Depends: libmpfr4 which is a virtual package.
>>
>> It is libmpfr4 not found on standard Ubuntu?
> Nope,
> $ sudo apt-get install libmpfr4
> [sudo] password for wpd:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Couldn't find package libmpfr4

ditto

> or, perhaps I don't understand how to install libmpfr4 or what it is.
>
>>> I have found a few miscellaneous web pages that suggest that:
>>>
>>> $ sudo aptitude install linux-libc-dev-armel-cross libc6-armel-cross
>>> libc6-dev-armel-cross binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi
>>> gcc-4.4-arm-linux-gnueabi g++-4.4-arm-linux-gnueabi
>>>
>>> should just work out of the box, so I'm thinking that something must
>>> have changed recently.
>>
>> That should work out of the box in Debian/Squeeze
> yep, I tried that.  It worked on a Debian (virtual) box.  But I can't
> figure out how to make it work on a Ubuntu box.

Marcin or Loic can probably help you further.

>>
>>> Any tips?
>>
>> http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianToolchain
> Thanks... I hadn't found that page.  From that, it sounds like I need
> to add emdebian.org to my source.list file, but that sounds different
> than "Ubuntu is shipping its own toolchain version for armel"
>
> Thanks for the tips.
>
> --wpd
>



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