Re: [Hampshire] Cross-compiling Debian packages

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Author: Kevin Bagust
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Cross-compiling Debian packages
On 19 April 2012 12:18, Chris Smith <cjs94@???> wrote:
> I thought it should be as simple as calling dpkg-buildpackage with the
> -a option, but that doesn't work: It tries to do the right thing, and
> produces a binary package with the correct architecture suffix, but the
> binaries inside are all x86.  How can I persuade it to use the Emdebian
> toolchain?


Chris,

I have found a package called dpkg-cross which seems to designed to
allow cross-compiling debian packages, which may help. The following
link is for an page has some more details of using it.
http://meltin.net/hacks/linux/crossbuild.html

Kevin.

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