Brendan Conoboy wrote:
Sure- just to quickly rehash my goals for Fedora: I'd like to see $TARGET-binutils and $TARGET-gcc as standard Fedora packages. For the purpose of this list, TARGET=arm-linux-gnueabi (Or some variation thereof), but what I'm ultimately after is to have as many packages as possible be cross-friendly. These cross-binutils/gcc packages *should* be based directly on the native binutils/gcc packages. There's already what is needed for binutils. With gcc, more work is needed to split the target libraries from the compiler itself. Once that is done, gcc should be relatively easy (No chicken/egg problem).
Phew! thats what I thought you were after (from the discussions in fedora-devel). So, we are on the same page -- good!
In crosstopia, there is a complete mesh of cross compilers for every Fedora architecture. Whenever there is a package to be built, whether it's for i686, arm, s390, powerpc, any host can compile it for any target. This requires the cross compilers, some enhancements to rpm, and some enhancements to Koji. It's all technically feasible, though.
Yes.
There was an extensive discussion on fedora-devel-list about this. You can catch the beginning of the thread here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg01006.html Also Lennert's hijacked thread :-) https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg00189.html
Yup! I remember the whole thread etc.
> Could you explain how you leverage Fedora in your approach, or is that > not something you particularly care about? That's part 2 :-) We have an in-house build system called rpmbuildroot that uses mock and GNUPro to cross-build Fedora packages. We make some changes to the Fedora packages so they can cross build (Plus whatever is necessary architecture-wise). Sometime soon we hope to release the rpmbuildroot environment so people have access to the patches and can try out a different system.
Well, thats the stuff that I am interested in. And, we are just about ready to get seriously started on that front -- so hopefully you wont hold back on that for too long :-) Manas
