cross compiling e17 package for moko

[Sebastian Reichel]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:22:25PM +0100, arne anka wrote:
> to answer your question w/o any political implications:
> 
> if you got a plain x86 box, your best bet would probably be
> pbuilder, qemubuilder or cowbuilder (don't ask, what the differences
> are, i still fail to grasp the concept).
> apt-cross is pretty much dead and emdebian incomplete and rather
> confusing, imo, that is.

pbuilder - build a debian package in a chroot (chroot => will build
           for the arch of the box pbuilder runs on)

qemubuilder - feels like pbuilder, but does not chroot into an image,
              but uses a qemu image (you can build for other arches
              with this, but it's slow of course)

cowbuilder - I never used this one, but afaik it's used for building
             for multiple targets by running pbuilder multiple times
             with different setups.

so why building in a chroot? First you make sure the list of packages
in Build-Depends is complete (because if not build will fail) and
second you may run Debian stable but want to build for unstable.

So actually none of these crosscompiles ;) dpkg-cross is used for
this, but don't ask me how to do it - I never tried.

If you work on e17 Debian packages you should get in contact with
Albin Tonnerre <lutin at debian.org> - The current maintainer of e17.

-- Sebastian
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