Hi everybody,
Fedora 19 has many of the enablers for native aarch64 in core packages
such as glibc and gcc. Many more packages would compile if config.guess
and config.sub recognized aarch64 as a valid architecture, but only the
latest version of autoconf knows about aarch64. At last week's
fedora-arm meeting we talked about the viability of automatically
patching such packages. The outcome of that discussion was that we
should first identify how many packages need such a patch, then decide
what to do based on that number.
Red Hat's Al Stone has written a script which automatically generates
patches for each package that needs it (And updates its spec file).
After a complete run we can say that ~1850 packages need such a patch.
The number may be larger, but it is definitely not smaller, as his only
considers autoconf-using packages. If another auto configuration system
is in use by a number of packages it too many need updating (cmake?).
Now that we have this number, what do we want to do?
I see a few options:
1. Do nothing, trip over this issue at least 1850 times during bootstrap.
2. Mail all package owners asking for action.
3. Proven packager commits the patches, package owners take them out
once unnecessary.
4. Run autoconf during build, incurring wrath of any packager whose
package isn't compatible with the latest autoconf.
5. Your much more sensible idea goes here.
What say you?
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Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc@xxxxxxxxxx
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