Specifying architecture on cross-compilations

[kalikiana]

@ogra

also, if i use the architectures keyword in my snapcraft.yaml and the target architecture defined there is not matching my host arch, why cant snapcraft install the compiler automatically instead of requiring me to use --target-arch.

There’s a separate discussion on changing the architectures field.

@ogra

first of all i think the *-packages directives should be consistent in their options and behaviour…

I’m not disagreeing at this point, but I’d like to figure out the best solution for the case at hand and not looking into a new feature to work around a bug. That’s also why I was asking for other examples where this would be useful.