[Cbe-oss-dev] cbe toolchain packages for Ubuntu

[Matthias Klose]

Experimental ppu/spu toolchain packages for Ubuntu are available for the feisty
and gutsy (development) releases.

 - The packages for the gutsy release can be found in the gutsy archive
   in the `universe' section of the archive.

 - Packages for the feisty release can be found at

     deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/ubuntu feisty-proposed/
     deb-src http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/ubuntu feisty-proposed/

Both sets of packages are based on the rpm packages found at
http://www.bsc.es/plantillaH.php?cat_id=304 . All packaging bugs not found in
the rpm packages are mine. The naming of the binary packages is the same as
found in the rpm packaging (with libspe{,-dev} renamed to libspe1{,-dev} to
conform with ubuntu and debian policy).

An overview of bugs reported for the packages in ubuntu can be found at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-cbe/+packagebugs .

Some questions for packaging of newer development or release versions of the
toolchain packages:

 - The bsc.es site doesn't reference any "upstream" location of the
   toolchain packages; while seeing patches being submitted to the binutils
   and gcc upstream projects, I was unable to find an upstream location
   for the sources used as a base for the SDK 2.1 release.

 - The spu cross compiler currently fails to build (ICE building libgcc),
   which apparently seems to be fixed in newer toolchain packages. For
   the current binary packages, the binaries from the rpm packages are
   used).

 - The simdmath packages are distributed as binary only (source location?)
   and have a rather short copyright notice (is this the correct one?)

I would be pleased to get feedback about the packages either as bug reports in
launchpad, or on an appropriate mailing list (if cbe-oss-dev is inappropriate,
please use ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com).

  Matthias