Help with building packages on non-i386 architectures

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> > One way to improve this situation is to have group of people having
> > experience with ppc and x86_64, that can be consulted when a package
> > fails to build, and the cause is not clear.
>
> We had such a page in the wiki. See "Architecture Managers" on
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/x86_64Status?action=recall&rev=13
>
> But I removed it cause there seem to be no interest
> - by other x86_64-owners
> - by fedora-extras packagers
>
> Feel free to put that stuff online again. But simply asking here on
> fedora-extras-list and/or on #fedora-extras should work in most cases,
> too.

Another method might be to offer a "throw away" xen image to the developer.
At least, if xen for x86_64 (and ppc :) is working. I never got xen3 to work
on my x86_64 yet.

Paul