Enrico Weigelt wrote:
* Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
Cross compiling breaks stuff, yes.
Most packages don't cross compile at all. Debian has somewhere north of
30,000 packages. Every project that does large scale cross compiling
(buildroot, gentoo embedded, timesys making fedora cross compile, etc) tends
to have about 200 packages that cross compile more or less easily, another
400 or so that can be made to cross compile with _lot_ of effort and a large
enough rock, and then the project stalls at about that size.
The problem is: most embedded projects don't make really general-purpose
fixes (instead strange things like hacking up autogenerated files), so
they can't feed back to upstream.
IMHO, a huge waste of working time.
Amen, brother. I'm fortunate in that I work for an organization that is
quite good about enforcing code reviews, specifically, the QA
organization is empowered to reject changes that do not have code review
notes. I also have a fairly broad scope, so I'm in on code reviews for a
number of open source components. At each such review, one of my
criteria is whether the change is suitable for pushing back to the
appropriate community. This is not necessarily a short-term way to make
friends, but the long-term effects will be good both for the company and
for the open source community in general.
Now, if we can only get the time to actually push all the backlogged
fixes out...
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