David Woodhouse wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 10:27 -0600, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
What do you mean by reliable? Once a package is setup to work in a
cross environment, it builds quite reliably.
...until the next time it gets broken by an uncaring upstream :)
In my experience, Fedora is the uncaring upstream which breaks things
:-) If cross compilation becomes a standard procedure on Fedora, such
breakage is less common. This is because a large number of the gotchas
to cross compilation have to do with how the spec file works (especially
%pre/%post), rather than the sources. This is particularly true for
packages that use auto*. The question is how to introduce cross
compilation without putting greater burden on the package maintainers.
I just mean that I gave up on it, because I was seeing too many failures
-- some of which didn't show up until you exercise some esoteric code
path in the resulting binary. I wouldn't personally be happy to release
cross-compiled stuff and call it 'Fedora'.
Awww, don't give up. A lot of us love Fedora and love neat little
devices. We want to run Fedora on those devices. We also run screaming
at the idea of building *on* those devices. Cross compilation is the
answer.
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Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc@xxxxxxxxxx
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