cross compiling e17 package for moko

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:38:51 +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote:

> > 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)

And the chroot is stored in a .tar.gz.
 
> cowbuilder - I never used this one, but afaik it's used for building
>              for multiple targets by running pbuilder multiple times
>              with different setups.

Ehm, no.
It's just the same as pbuilder, except that it uses cow
(copy-on-write) and the chroot is just a directory.
Which means - same to use as pbuilder, same config, and much faster
(since the "tar xfz" is replaced by a "cp -...").
 

Cheers,
gregor
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