emdebian.mdwn



% Emdebian BoF - quick review and discussion
% Wookey & Héctor Orón
% DebConf9, July 2009
Progress this year

grip and crush(for arm) released along with lenny
grip being used commercially
toolchains now building gcc-4.4

Debian changes

dpkg-vendor support has been added
Default shell changed to dash

Crush Code Audit
Everyone get involved.
Install emdebian tools, pick a package, emsource it and see if it works.
Look if patches can be incorporated into main package
and/or re-implemented using deb_vendor.
dpkg-cross

cmake support in dpkg-cross - can we move it?
autoconf support in dpkg-cross
transition to multiarch - dpkg going away, but need it for a while.

cross-tools

Uninstalability is a problem
new plan for autobuilt toolchains
![](images/cross.pdf

multiarch changes things

cross-building - OK for debian, not for variants - needs
sysroot/chroot
dependencies stuff all changes - now install foregn arch stuff
directly, not convert it to build arch.

cross-building

hapening in Debian/ubuntu for toolchains
we need eqivalent of pbuilder-satisfy-depends
apt-cross does not work well enough - how do we fix?

please dive in - plenty to do :-)
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