On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 18:36 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 7 November 2015 at 17:51, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Stephen John Smoogen < > > smooge@xxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > 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. The Mer project OBS[0] uses qemu ARM emulation and the speed seems to be fine. Also I think the production builds for Sailfish OS are done the same way. [0] https://build.merproject.org/ > > > > > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
