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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