On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 15:21 -0500, Clark Williams wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > - From the responses you got, I'd say there's a fair amount of interest. > > What do you think about starting small (e.g. generating a mesh of FC x > FC compilers)? Starting with an FC target would mean that we could use > packages we know already work in the Fedora framework. It would just > be a matter of making a specfile (or series of specfiles) that are > cross-friendly to build and package gcc, binutils, glibc and gdb. > I've done that a few times and while it's not exactly pretty, it's > doable. We could generate x86, x86_64, and PPC hosted toolchains for > x86, x86_64 and PPC and then be able to build say PPC packages from an > x86_64 (the immediate benefactor would probably be the build system). > Of course after getting the toolchains packaged, it's a matter of > asking the maintainers to keep their specfiles cross friendly, but if > they'll take patches, we can clean that up. It is way more than just keeping their specfiles cross friendly. Most larger projects, like Xorg, are a bitch to crosscompile, and almost all need a lot of tuning before even './configure' works. The ones without configure will probably even more work to get obscure Makefiles to do cross compiling. The cross compiler part is less than 0.1% of the problem. - Erwin -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
