On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 05:37:10PM +0100, drago01 wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Brendan Conoboy <blc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On 03/20/2012 09:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >> >> >> That said, I considera cross-building environment for secondary arch to >> >> be inevitable, which would at least help for the class of issues, I am >> >> referring to above. >> > >> > >> > I'm a big fan of cross compilation, but introducing it into Fedora in order >> > to support ARM seems unlikely to succeed for too many reasons to go into. >> >> The reasons are? .... > > We use cross-compilation right now for mingw-* packages (for Windows). > However you cannot use cross-compilation to create a foo-*.armv7hl.rpm > package. That's because our entire toolchain, from RPM through Koji, > simply does not understand cross-compilation properly. > > Solvable, but undoubtedly a ton of work for everyone. I don't know about the details there but that does not sound like unfixable to be. I'd even say that fixing that is a prerequisite to allow secondary archs that run on "slow" hardware to become primary. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
