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+[[!meta title="Packaging"]]
+
+There are always more source packages to be made.  Software that should be
+packaged soon includes:
+
+  * **[Dropbear](http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html)**
+    
+    Dropbear is a small SSH server and client, in many ways compatible with
+    OpenSSH.
+    
+    In addition to the basic packaging work, there is work to be done on a
+    service script (just a simple shell script in `/etc/init.d`) and `postinst`
+    and `postrm` maintainer scripts to generate and delete the SSH host key
+    pair.
+
+  * **[GNU Autoconf](https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/)**
+    
+    GNU Autoconf generates `configure` scripts that are used to configure
+    software packages for building.
+
+  * **[GNU Automake](https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/)**
+    
+    GNU Automake generates `Makefile.in` files that are used to build software
+    packages.
+
+  * **[GNU M4](https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/)**
+    
+    GNU M4 is a macro processor, notably used by GNU Autoconf.
+
+  * **[Perl 5](http://www.perl.org/)**
+    
+    Perl 5 is a language interpreter, especially popular in systems
+    administration and software build and installation systems.
+    
+    Unmodified Perl 5 source is impossible to cross build without executing
+    software on the host system (in GNU Autoconf terms, the system for which the
+    package is built).  See [this mailing list thread][perl-cross-building] for
+    more information.  We will need to modify Perl's build system a bit before
+    we can build a package.
+
+  * **[GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP)](http://gmplib.org/)**
+    
+    GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on
+    signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers.  It is used
+    by GCC.
+
+  * **[GNU MPFR](http://www.mpfr.org/)**
+    
+    MPFR is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with
+    correct rounding.
+
+  * **[GNU MPC](http://www.multiprecision.org/index.php?prog=mpc)**
+    
+    MPC is a C library for the arithmetic of complex numbers with arbitrarily
+    high precision and correct rounding of the result.
+
+  * **[GNU Binutils](https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/)**
+    
+    GNU Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including a linker and
+    assembler.
+    
+    Binutils and GCC are part of the
+    [[multiarch_cross_toolchain|dev/todo/multiarch-cross-toolchains]] project.
+
+  * **[GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)](http://gcc.gnu.org/)**
+    
+    GCC is an optimizing compiler with frontends and libraries for a wide range
+    of languages.
+    
+    Binutils and GCC are part of the
+    [[multiarch_cross_toolchain|dev/todo/multiarch-cross-toolchains]] project.
+
+  * **[GNU Make](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/)**
+    
+    GNU Make is a tool that automatically builds software packages.
+
+  * **[DAS U-Boot](http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot)**
+    
+    U-Boot is a bootloader used on many embedded computers, including the
+    BeagleBoard-xM.
+
+
+[perl-cross-building]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2012/06/msg00011.html