David Woodhouse wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 10:27 -0600, Brendan Conoboy wrote:What do you mean by reliable? Once a package is setup to work in a cross environment, it builds quite reliably....until the next time it gets broken by an uncaring upstream :)
In my experience, Fedora is the uncaring upstream which breaks things :-) If cross compilation becomes a standard procedure on Fedora, such breakage is less common. This is because a large number of the gotchas to cross compilation have to do with how the spec file works (especially %pre/%post), rather than the sources. This is particularly true for packages that use auto*. The question is how to introduce cross compilation without putting greater burden on the package maintainers.
I just mean that I gave up on it, because I was seeing too many failures -- some of which didn't show up until you exercise some esoteric code path in the resulting binary. I wouldn't personally be happy to release cross-compiled stuff and call it 'Fedora'.
Awww, don't give up. A lot of us love Fedora and love neat little devices. We want to run Fedora on those devices. We also run screaming at the idea of building *on* those devices. Cross compilation is the answer.
-- Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc redhat com