Re: Cross-building Debian `linux` package (Was: Re: Unmet dependencies problem in CrossToolchains)

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:15 PM, John Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 03/30/2015 10:45 PM, Wookey wrote:
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>> +++ John Morris [2015-03-30 22:16 -0500]:
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>>> I'm going to try setting up Wookey's cross-build daemon
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>> (careful - it really could do with some more work to be moderately
>> general!)
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>>> or use sbuild directly, so never mind.
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> Thanks for the tips, Wookey.  I ended up adding `sbuild` functionality to
> some scripts I had laying about, and it looks like all the Machinekit
> dependencies can be compiled.
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> However, there are a few packages that can't be *cross*-compiled, the most
> irritating of which is the Debian `linux` package.  (I've modified the
> packaging to build Xenomai and RTAI 'featuresets'.)
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> The problem is the explicit `Build-Depends: gcc-4.9`, which can't be met by
> the `crossbuild-essential-armhf` or its dependencies.  For now qemu will get
> the job done, but of course take ages to do it.
>
What are you building linux for? If it is just the linux-libc-dev
package then there might be a reduced build that only builds that.

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