On 03/20/2012 05:46 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 05:37:10PM +0100, drago01 wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Brendan Conoboy<blc(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 03/20/2012 09:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>
>>> That said, I considera cross-building environment for secondary arch to
>>> be inevitable, which would at least help for the class of issues, I am
>>> referring to above.
>>
>>
>> I'm a big fan of cross compilation, but introducing it into Fedora in order
>> to support ARM seems unlikely to succeed for too many reasons to go into.
>
> The reasons are? ....
We use cross-compilation right now for mingw-* packages (for Windows).
However you cannot use cross-compilation to create a foo-*.armv7hl.rpm
package. That's because our entire toolchain, from RPM through Koji,
simply does not understand cross-compilation properly.
Well, the mock/rpm part is the smaller part of the issues (I use
customized mock setups on Fedora to build mingw-* and cygwin-* packages).
Solvable, but undoubtedly a ton of work for everyone.
The real issue would be to re-utilize "foreign native rpms" (here
*.arm.rpms) to install them in sys-roots on x86.
(Fedora's mingw*-toolchains are explictly packaged to fit into x86)
Ralf