Fedora 8/ARM available
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Thu Jan 17 09:51:21 UTC 2008
Caolan McNamara writes:
>
> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 00:33 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We are proud to announce the availability of a(n unofficial)
> > Fedora 8 package repository for the ARM architecture.
> >
> > The package repository has been built for ARMv5 EABI, soft-float,
> > little endian. The majority of the important and frequently used
> > Fedora packages have been built for ARM.
>
> FWIW, I ported OOo to arm-eabi last year, the "vanilla" rpms of the time
> are at...
> http://ooo.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/cws/upload/armeabiport01/
> and that work is now integrated into 2.4.0 as in rawhide so in theory
> for F9 it should build out of the box.
>
> At the time there was no ecj/libgcj port to arm-eabi so the extra flag
> to OOo's configure required to workaround that was --without-java, I
> see java-1.5.0-gcj-devel in the repo now so that's presumably
> unnecessary now.
I certainly hope so. Lennert and I have done a lot of work to get gcj
working on ARM EABI, so if anything fails I'd appreciate a heads-up.
Yeah, I know it's rather slow. :-)
Andrew.
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