Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/3] new: debian docker targets for cross-compiling

[Alex Bennée]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> On 14 February 2017 at 10:07, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
>> This provides a basic Debian install with access to the emdebian cross
>> compilers. The debian-armhf-cross and debian-arm64-cross targets build
>> on the basic Debian image to allow cross compiling to those targets.
>
> Is there a particular reason for creating different docker images
> for each cross target rather than just having one image with
> all the cross compilers in it?

Mainly the clashing of build-dependencies. Debian's multi-arch is pretty
good but you still can't generally have two arches worth of complex
dependencies installed at once.

I did originally have one base docker image with all the compilers and
intended to do the dependencies step as part of test-build. However when
running as builders the docker images don't actually have network
ability so couldn't download them.

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Alex Bennée