On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 07:39 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote: > dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Woodhouse) writes: > > > Starting with binutils.... at http://david.woodhou.se/binutils.spec > > there's a specfile based on the current Core package which lets you > > build cross-binutils with for example > > --define "binutils_target i686-fedora-linux" > > Some thoughts (which were brought in other postings already): > > * for binutils, at least '--enable-targets=%{_host}' should be added to > make e.g. stripping of binaries possible by setting %_strip to the > cross-strip. It certainly does no harm to do this -- but when would I want to strip _native_ binaries with i386-fedora5-linux-strip? > * for binutils, there would be an alternative approach to build them > with '--enable-targets=all' to create a set of utilities (strip, > objdump, ...) which work for all architectures > With this method, only assembler and linker must be created separately > for every arch. Yeah, that's actually the reason I abandoned the binutils-multi approach -- since we have to build the separate packages anyway, and the user has to _install_ the separate packages anyway, I figured we might as well not be poking around in the _Core_ binutils package to enable all architectures. On the other hand, if Jakub would be happy with --enable-targets=all, and we switch to generating only gas and ld on the non-native architectures, that would be a way to reduce the duplication when we end up with a lot of cross-toolchains installed. It does make the basic install bigger though, for those who aren't using cross-toolchains. I haven't looked recently at how _much_ it bloats the basic install. -- dwmw2 -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
