On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 16:16 -0600, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> Supporting cross-compiling would be great, but having spent a
several
> weeks fighting with Python and its libraries last year and losing, I
> suspect scouring the other nine zillion Fedora packages for
Packages like Python and Perl do take some work, but a number of
individuals have already done that work. Multiple times. Multiple
approaches. Fedora becoming cross friendly could have the effect of
unifying those efforts, getting cross changes upstream, ending all the
waste.
I like the idea, really. But we're seeing serious resistance to the
suggestion that package maintainers should even have to look at _native_
build failures on architectures which used to build, even though such
failures are _often_ indicative of a generic problem and not an
arch-specific problem.
Do you really think we're going to get them to care about cross builds
too? I _did_ care about cross-compilation, and I gave up on it. I really
don't think we have much chance of getting package maintainers (and
upstreams) to handle it. Unfortunately.
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dwmw2