Vojtech Horky wrote:
2009/10/8 bardo <ilbardo@gmail.com>:
2009/10/7 Vojtech Horky <vojta.horky@seznam.cz>:
Hi all, I am seeking advice how to write correct PKGBUILDs for cross-compilers.
The thing I am not sure about is where to install them. Trouble is that even the binary packages use different locations and I haven't found any other source where to get information from (for example, cross-arm-wince-cegcc-binutils uses prefix /opt/cegcc/ while mingw32-gcc uses /usr). So, which location would you recommend/is better?
Some time ago I asked the same question about my AVR toolchain, which is now in [community]. I think the original thread can be interesting to you:
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-January/thread.html#...
Another thing - is the correct naming convention 'cross-<arch>-<pkgname>'?
As you see, I just stuck with the '-arch' postfix =)
Corrado
Hi, first of all - thanks everybody for the suggestions and the links.
I read them through, (again and again) looked around how others do it and finally decided to really write that wiki page as Loui proposed. I put the guidelines proposal on
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cross_Compiling_Tools_Package_Guidelines... I and would be really glad if someone would find some time to read it and express his opinion.
I have been looking into cross-compilers a lot lately, and I think the best place to put _all_ their files is /usr/lib/cross-*-*-* and then symlink needed stuff or add wrapper scripts in /usr/bin/. This is more FHS compliant than the /usr/i486-mingw32 that is used in mingw32 and /usr/avr in the avr one. I agree that it is more FHS compliant but I would prefer to have files
Does your proposed build process lead to any "interesting" directories in /usr? No. But sometimes a small hack is needed (e.g. the tooldir settings for binutils). Possible conflicts are solved by adding architecture
2009/10/13 Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>: directly (i.e. no symlinks) where they are supposed to be (e.g. put executables into /usr/bin rather than symlinking them from /usr/lib/cross*). prefix and duplicate files are not installed at all (e.g. man pages or READMEs). BTW, the MIPS cross-compilers (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=cross-mips) now follow the proposed guidelines from the wiki.
I am currently rebuilding the mingw32 packages to check if I can get this working properly and will add comments to the wiki page in the coming days.
Thanks.
Allan
- Vojta