On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 18:39 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 11:11:09AM +0530, Kedar Sovani wrote:
>
>>> With the announcement of Fedora-10, I am sure people would want to know
>>> whether anyone is building F10 packages for ARM.
>>>
>>> I have been doing just that. So far I have built a set of basic packages
>>> (including gcc) that boots F10 on ARM. These packages are, for now,
>>> built on an F8 build root. Once I have rpm-build built for F10, I could
>>> rebuild all the packages on an F10 build root. And then make the rpms
>>> available somewhere.
>> Ok, I now have the build closure with rpm-build available for F10. Thus
>> far, I have upwards of 450 rpms built for F10 (on an F8 root).
>>
>> I have now started re-buildling these rpms on F10. While building rpms
>> on the F10 root, one problem that I see is some binaries keep crashing.
>>
>> I could narrow down the problem to "-fstack-protector" option to gcc.
If
>> I do not pass that option, things work fine. Else, I see the binary
>> seg-faulting. Is anyone aware of a known issues with gcc-4.3 on ARM, as
>> far as stack protector is concerned?
> Kedar,
>
> Can you try whether the fix for gcc PR35965 resolves this? E.g.
>
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-06/msg01641.html .
>
>
Great! This patch worked.
> thanks,
> Lennert
/me fires package rebuilds with the patched gcc...
With Kedar's work, does that mean it would be possible to get F10 going
on the Openmoko devices now?
Thanks,
Phil.
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