On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 08:33, Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Le mer. 12 juin 2019 à 10:50, Elliott Sales de Andrade
<quantum.analyst(a)gmail.com> a écrit :
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> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 at 16:46, Tom Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Reviving this. I do not have the time nor the energy to attempt to keep this
going, so I am going to disable the shared bits in cross-gcc and kill off
glibc-arm-linux-gnu. It's been broken for a while, so I doubt anyone will be seriously
impacted by this.
>
> Ah that's unfortunate. I've been working on something that could
> possibly make use of this, but I haven't quite reached the stage of
> testing this out with it, and since it wasn't in Rawhide, I hadn't
> taken much look into it.
>
> I see that Debian has pretty much every cross version of libc6:
>
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libc6&searchon=names&...
>
> What makes it so easy for them? / What makes it difficult for us? How
> can we make cross toolchains easier?
Probably time/human ressources.
I would be interested in having a working cross compilation toolchain
also (specially for case where 32bit linking is an issue like chromium
or else).
I have tried to work on some patches (including kernel-headers), but
not had time to fully qualify the changes.
FYI, I've tried to contact the maintainer of the copr repo pointed by
Tom, so far no answer.
Looking at some of his copr contributions, he haven't found the right
step to contribute to fedora main repository yet (also others topics).
To follow up here, I think one of the main issues is the lack of
documentation/guidelines for this case. I've tried to review a
cross-compiler (mspgcc) package, but rpmlint complains about a bunch
of stuff (using lib not lib64, headers in non-devel packages, etc.)
which may or may not be relevant to compilers. I _think_ that the
package is doing the right thing, because it emulates gcc, but I don't
_know_ that it is. And it seems like the Embedded SIG never
answered...
So I can't say that's the case for this copr maintainer, but the
package review for compilers might just seem too much trouble to be
worth it.
This is unfortunate and I fear this situation is going to increase
with users kept in their copr projects...
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Nicolas (kwizart)
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Elliott