On Thursday 02 of October 2014 04:21:29 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > on IRC recently, one user asked about the possibility of using TDE on
> > PowerPC
> > architecture. I took the challenge and tried to add powerpc architecture
> > on
> > my small builder. After solving the fundamental problem with CMake I have
> > successfully progressed in building more and more packages. Currently in
> > my
> > alternative apt source 'preliminary-stable-builds' are available almost
> > all
> > packages for Debian 7.x (Wheezy) on PowerPC.
> >
> > Who of you has a real PowerPC hardware, you can test it!
> >
> > --
> > Sl�vek
>
> Sounds great!  How did you run the builds, with qemu or a similar
> virtualization solution or some kind of cross-architecture build?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tim
>

For building packages I use pbuilder and for other platforms are combined 
using qemu-user-static == base image is created using qemu-debootstrap. 

It's great, because it can run building on tmpfs, is not limited by the size 
of memory and can fully use parallel build (DEB_PARALLEL_JOBS). This would 
not be possible with full virtualization. With that builds runs acceptably 
fast. And one builder builds for any of the platforms (now amd64, i386, 
armhf, armel, mips, powerpc) - platform is determined by BASETGZ.

On powerpc was a problem with CMake, which crashed immediately after start. It 
helped when I replace qemu-ppc-static binary in the base image by the same 
binary from 32 bit qemu-user-static package.

-- 
Sl�vek