[Hamara-devel] Cross-compile armv6 for hamara.

[shantanu at hamaralinux.org]

Hello Everyone,

As all of you are aware our repository for amrv7 is ready and we are now 
working on creating armv6 repository. We are facing some problems while 
cross compiling armv6 packages for hamara distribution.

Below are the steps we used to create debootstrap for cross compiling.

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sudo apt-get install qemu-user-static debootstrap
basedir=`pwd`/wheezyarmel-chroot
export architecture="armel"
mkdir -pv ${basedir}
cd ${basedir}
debootstrap --foreign --arch $architecture wheezy wheezy-$architecture
#debootstrap --arch armel trusty /mnt/min_buntu 
http://archive.wheezy.com/wheezy
cp -v /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static wheezy-$architecture/usr/bin/
LANG=C chroot wheezy-$architecture /debootstrap/debootstrap 
--second-stage

echo "dummy" > wheezy-$architecture/etc/hostname

cp /etc/apt/sources.list  wheezy-$architecture/etc/apt/

cat << EOF > wheezy-$architecture/etc/network/interfaces
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
EOF

cat << EOF > wheezy-$architecture/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       precise    localhost
::1             localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0         ip6-localnet
ff00::0         ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1         ip6-allnodes
ff02::2         ip6-allrouters
EOF

export LC_ALL=C
mount -o bind /dev wheezy-$architecture/dev
mount -t proc proc wheezy-$architecture/proc
mount -t sysfs sys wheezy-$architecture/sys
chroot wheezy-$architecture
apt-get update
apt-get install locales
addgroup --system admin
useradd -s /bin/bash -g admin -m -k /dev/null user
passwd root

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We successfully can create debootstrap environment for cross-compiling, 
however while building .debs we face multiple dependencies problems.

Process to reproduce the problem.

1.) Create debootstrap following above steps
2.) Copy .gnupg from any build server to debootstrap's root directory.
3.) git clone hamara helper and execute /bin/bash make-anna (for 
example)

Can I request some help/ideas on this.


Thanks
Shantanu