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

[Vikas Tara]

On 14/12/14 08:11, shantanu at hamaralinux.org wrote:
>
> 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.
I am about to start work on this - can you raise bugs for the dependency 
issues you have already seen?