On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 18:25 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote: > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 17:31 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 15:53 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 15:42 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 11:08 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote: > > > > > > > of course when using > > > > > the binaries there is no circular dependency :-) > > > > Exactly. It also has another advantage: Nothing can be "more original" > > > > than the "original" - I.e. why rebuilding target libs when you can use > > > > the original files? > > > > > > Because those "target libs" are open source (wrapper) libs and have to > > > be build by someone, this is very different from a closed source UNIX > > > you mentioned where you don't have any other option but to use the > > > closed source libraries. > > To me, rebuilding something just because it can be done, is > > overengineering, because > > > > 1. There is no guarantee these cross built files will identical to the > > "original" files. > > 2. You are building cross, to run these files on a target system, i.e. > > these files must be provided by somebody for the "target system". > > 3. Target files from a Linux perspective are just "meaningless binary > > data files", just like any other binary files (jpegs, sound files). > > Over-engineering or not, binaries have nothing to do in source rpms, They do. They are just "data". Or would you install a raytracer, just because a jpeg being used as image somewhere is being generated by a raytracer? > especially not for an open source distribution like Fedora. And since > they can be build from the source, there is no need for binaries in the > first place. So to me using the binaries just sounds like > lazy-engineering to me ;-) Absolutely not: You are building a tool chain, you are not building nor supplying the OS. The situation is not any different from building a native GCC under Linux: You use the library binaries being provided elsewhere. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
