[Bug 452211] Review Request: spu-binutils - Binutils for the SPU on IBM Cell processors

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--- Comment #12 from Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com>  2008-09-29 13:04:21 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> A spu-binutils.spec based on your binutils.spec is available here:
> http://foss.it.brighton.ac.uk/~balor/rpm/spu-binutils/spu-binutils.spec

Just the used binutils version it was based on is pretty old, even without the
changes for the package review.  The latest binutils Rawhide release:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=63802
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewvc/rpms/binutils/devel/


> Would you prefer this version to go upstream?

This is your package, you should like it. :-)


(In reply to comment #11)
> No, that's fine for me. The only question I have is how we'd keep binutils.spec
> and spu-binutils.spec in sync.

Without some rocket science of automatic rebuilds etc. I think it is simple to
register for watching the CVS commits of each other:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/binutils
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/avr-binutils

> Two different spec files would still mean that we have two different packages
> (binutils and spu-binutils), wouldn't it?

Yes.

> Or is there any way besides the "virtual packaging" like running rpmbuild
> within a .spec file?

IMO not worth the problems.


> I thought that the easiest and fastest way might be to create the spu-binutils
> package according to the way avr-binutils does.

It is based on an old upstream release (not the H.J.Lu's snapshots).
On the other hand the Fedora binutils patches are mostly arch-specific and 
therefore unrelated to SPU.  Still they do not affect the SPU build anyhow.

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