>>> On Nov 7, 2015 13:50, "Neal Gompa" <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > >>> > Why don't we do emulated builds (like how OBS does it for ARM)? >>> > >>> > >>> >>> The attempts at emulated builds have usually been slower than the hardware >>> builds >> >> Are they unusable? I find it hard to believe that emulated builds are that >> horrible for building in when we don't have much hardware for ARM builds... >> >> > > If we are talking about cross-compiling emultation builds (some people > use that term so I need to make sure I am clear) then I think we > haven't looked into it because we don't do cross-compiles in the main > build system. If we are talking about using qemu to emulate arm, the > problem is that the speed was so slow that it was interfering with > builds thinking they were broken (timed out) when they were just > really slow. However that was a long time ago (2 years?) so it may > have improved. There's a bunch of issues with cross compiling a lot of things, partially around a bunch of the things that run around the actual composing. The way OBS does that is by running those bits in a qemu emulated. It's quite messy and it would need a bunch of development. We're much closer to getting ARMv7 on aarch64 VMs running and that would be more suitable for all involved. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
