hi
recently i have installed openwrt on my mikrotik routerboard. i am verry suprised how well it works. it lacks git-annex package. openwrt has git and i can install it.
how can i build one on a mips arch ? is it possible to build multiple architecture standalone binaries ?
I would be quite happy if someone took care of adding git-annex to openwrt.
I don't have time to personally handle packaging for different linux distributions myself. What I could do is add mips builds of git-annex to the existing standalone linux builds. These would need to be built the same way the arm builds are done, using a Debian chroot and qemu to run tools from it. This is rather a lot of work for me to set up, and I don't know if I'd have to do it for both little and big endian mips.
Also, it seems that Debian does not currently have a working haskell toolchain for mips. Which may well mean that ghc is not in a working state on mips at all.
if debian does not have working toolchain for mips then there is no way to port it into mips machines. am i correct ?
I checked, and the current status is that mips and mipsel in Debian have up-to-date builds of ghc and git-annex.