On 12/27/09 07:17, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
Hi Rob -
Fedora provides a whole solution there, with the restriction it's
designed for native build, not cross.
QEMU: it's not just for breakfast anymore.
That's right Qemu often requires lunch, teatime and supper too to build
anything :-)
Newer ARM platforms like Cortex8+ and the Marvell Sheevaplug will
outstrip emulated performance on a normal PC. There are 2GHz multi-core
ARMs coming as well apparently. So I took the view I should ignore Qemu
and get an early start on the true native build that will be the future
of "native build" as opposed to cross due to that.
The point of the distro is you just let them build the bulk of it, just
installing binary packages. You're only rebuilding the bits you are
changing for your application. For a lot of cases that's a few small
app packages that are mainly linking against stuff from the distro and
they're not too bad to do natively. (In addition my workflow is to edit
on a host PC and use scripts to teleport a source tree tarball to the
device where it's built as a package every time and installed together
with its -devel, so everything is always under package control).
-Andy
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