Thu Sep 28 15:24:57 UTC 2006

Hello,

I'll try to explain/document what i'm doing in order to use buildcross on sarge:

First, we must debootstrap Debian SID

$ sudo cdebootstrap --arch amd64 sid /home/user/sid-environ http://ftp.debian.org/debian/

or 

$ sudo debootstrap --arch amd64 sid /home/user/sid-environ http://ftp.debian.org/debian/

If you get an error
E: Couldn't install root!
get cdebootstrap from backports (for Sarge users)
http://www.backports.org/debian/pool/main/c/cdebootstrap/

Note that i'm using amd64, you should change it for your proper arch (i386,ppc,mips,arm,...)

$ sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list sid-environ/etc/apt/
Edit sources.list to match sid and add deb-src lines
$ sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf sid-environ/etc/resolv.conf
$ sudo chroot sid-environ/

(Mount /proc in chroot ?)

We shall install many packages:
# apt-get install subversion subversion-tools ssh
# apt-get install dpkg-cross vim mc wget
# apt-get install dctrl-tools grep-dctrl
# apt-get install sudo gcc fakeroot
# apt-get install dpatch patchutils curl
# apt-get install gcc-4.0 locales libc6-dev libmudflap0-dev
# apt-get install tar bzip2 unzip zip less
# apt-get install lsb lsb-release autoconf
# apt-get install autoconf2.13 automake1.9 libtool autogen gawk bison flex realpath
# apt-get install texinfo dejagnu expect-tcl8.3

$ svn co file:///var/emdebian/svn
or
# svn co svn+ssh://zumbi@www.emdebian.org/var/emdebian/svn



Fails:
couldn't open /etc/ld.so.conf: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps.orig line 154.