fedora for ARM

[Brendan Conoboy]

Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> I would fully agree with the sentiment that cross-compiling the entire
> distro as _the_ standard way of maintaining the arch package repository
> is not a realistic scenario and will likely never be.  Preferably, I
> would like to just keep doing this entirely natively.

I hesitate to say never, prefering to invoke the forseeable future. 
Wherever native builds are a viable option, it makes sense to use them. 
  Wherever cross builds are a viable option, it makes sense to use them.

> It appears a lot less effort to maintain a set of patches to make some
> limited subset of packages (say, 300 packages) cross-compilable,
> though.  In some cases, we'll have to do this anyway.

Indeed- if you can simply cross build the packages at the top of the 
dependency tree (kernel, libc, coreutils, init, bash/sh), you are in 
much better shape.  What's more, they are typically very cross friendly.

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Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc at redhat.com