Re: Creating debs using a cross-build environment?

Svante Signell wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 14:42 +0100, Hector Oron wrote:

>> Actually, not all packages support cross compilation, you might need
>> to check, proper way would be by setting -a$ARCH flag. So,
>>   dpkg-buildpackage -b -ahurd-i386 (+extra flags)
>
> Haven't tried yet. How is the cross-build environment found by
> dpkg-buildpackage?

See <http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch>.

Sometimes it works, and sometimes it feels like science fiction. ;-)
Anyway, hopefully that helps clarify the basic picture.

Regards,
Jonathan