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Feature request: MultiArch

Open LinArcX opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

To be honest, i don't like apt and debian in general.

but one of the greatest feature of debian, is "multiarch":

https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO

With this, you can be on a x86_64 machine, but you can install all the dependecies of your software in armhf and cross compile your software for armhf.

i think this feature is very handy for developers who are cross compiling software for different cpu architecture.(for example embedded developers)

LinArcX avatar Jun 08 '24 06:06 LinArcX

you can already do this by setting XBPS_ARCH/XBPS_TARGET_ARCH and using -r for an alternate root (this is how xbps-src does cross-compiling)

formalising tooling for this is discussed in https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/27337

classabbyamp avatar Jun 08 '24 06:06 classabbyamp