On Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 7:21:25 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 03/20/2012 05:46 PM, Richard W.M. Jones 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. > Well, the mock/rpm part is the smaller part of the issues (I use > customized mock setups on Fedora to build mingw-* and cygwin-* packages). >> Solvable, but undoubtedly a ton of work for everyone. > The real issue would be to re-utilize "foreign native rpms" (here > *.arm.rpms) to install them in sys-roots on x86. > (Fedora's mingw*-toolchains are explictly packaged to fit into x86) > Ralf On July 7th, 2009, Mark Salter made a post "crossbuilding rpms with koji" on the fedora-buildsys-list" where he described a project to add cross-building support to koji/moc/rpm/etc. The post in archived post is at http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-buildsys-list/2009-July/msg00000.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
