On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 09:50 -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > 1. Fedora Policy (Which I imagine is based on the technical foundation > of the following 5+ points and others I'm unaware of). > > 2. Many packages assume a native execution environment which will not > exist. Incredible undertaking to move 11000 packages to cross > compilation framework. And even if everything builds with cross tools, ee'd still need a native platform (hw or simulated) to run the %check stage. > > 3. Absence of arm-linux cross compilers in the distribution. > > 4. If there were arm-linux cross compilers, how do you keep them in sync > with native gcc? Already some work being done on that front: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761619 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=766166 > > 5. Where does the sys-root for an arm-linux cross compiler come from? > The sys-root would be populated from already built RPMs much like the mock chroot. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
