Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 20:11:19 +0900
From: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
To: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Cc: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Availability of cross toolchains in aports
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Drew DeVault wrote on Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 11:27:54AM +0100:
> I think that we should have a greater variety of cross compiler
> toolchains available in aports, providing in reach repo at least enough
> cross-compilers to build Alpine for any target supported by a stable
> Alpine release.
> 
> Thoughts?

Thanks for starting this thread!

I'd definitely agree to this, after spending a bit of time on it myself
for work (building some local aarch64/armhf packages)
It's easy enough to rebuild the cross environment with aports's
scripts/bootstrap.sh, but that's not very practical for CI environment.

After a bit of looking I've started using the cross compilers from pmos
repos here:
http://pkgs.postmarketos.org/package/master/postmarketos/x86_64/gcc-aarch64
http://pkgs.postmarketos.org/package/master/postmarketos/x86_64/gcc-armhf

which does the job, but if there is a viable alternative within the main
repos I'd be very happy to switch to it.


Cheers,
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Asmadeus | Dominique Martinet