emdebian.mdwn



% Emdebian BoF - review and discussion
% Wookey & Héctor Orón
% DebConf9, July 2009
BOF purpose
Cover emdebian current issues, decide 'roadmap', try to leave detailed
cross-compiling stuff to Cross-compiling talk tomorrow, 11am.
Progress this year

grip and crush(for arm) released along with lenny
grip being used commercially
toolchains building gcc-4.4
dpkg-vendor support has been added

And progress this week

auto-building toolchain(s) in debian itself

start with x86/amd64 -> arm


sh is now dash
multiarch changes agreed, including cross-deps.

Subjects

Cross-tools
Crush Code audit
Crush vs. Grip
Debian-variation management

Crush Code Audit
Examine what we changed for crush and how to avoid changing it there.
Everyone can 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-vendor.
http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianAuditHowTo
http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianCodeAudit
dpkg-cross

cmake support working - needs refining
autoconf support - where should it go?
transition to multiarch - dpkg-cross going away, but need it during
transition

cross-tools

Uninstalability is a problem - what to do
There is now a plan to build them in Debian proper

Cross-tools dependencies

Build plan

multiarch changes things

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

roadmap
How to order these things?

Crush Code audit
Multiarch toolchain changes
Using dpkg-vendor
Fixing apt-cross

please dive in - plenty to do :-)
http://www.emdebian.org/