On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 08:58 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 14:49 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > 1. Even though there is a practical standard for cross-compilers, no > > one > > > has yet written it down. > > Which standard do you need? > > > > There is only one point where GNU-cross-toolchains collide with our > > current guidelines: > > > > ${exec_prefix}/<target-alias> is defacto practice in GNU-toolchains > > for > > a long time (decades), but collides with the FHS. Unfortunately, > > changing this would require a non-trivial amount of work. > > Okay, so documenting this, as well as the naming standard (for the > toolchain and the packages) is what I was referring to. Or to be blunt: > > If I wanted to package a sparc cross-compiler, what would I need to know > to do it properly in Fedora? Our written guidelines right now don't > cover it at all (as far as I know). > > And yes, I know we have other cross toolchains, but this is the first > time anyone has wanted to package items in Fedora which are built from > those cross toolchains. I agree with your approach of having nothing in > the main repository other than simple testcases in the toolchain > packages, but I also don't have a problem with permitting these packages > to live in a separated location. And just to make another piece of our Board discussion more transparent: Independent of implementation, a limit to the space set aside for these products would provide a motivation for people *not* to want to go to the extreme case Jef was concerned about -- cross compiling "every library" in Fedora. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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