Cross-compilers.

[Philip Balister]

I am still not sure why people want cross compilers in Fedora? Maybe I 
missed the very beginning of the thread.

There are a number of project dedicated to building images using cross 
tool chains. The problem is much more involved than supplying a cross 
compiler.

See:

www.openembedded.org
buildroot
scratchbox

Philip

Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> Andy Green wrote:
> 
>> Sure, hence "so autotools can run on your target".  The issue is 
>> pertinent though if people think about a truly crosscompilable distro, 
>> Python and Perl at least will cause a lot of trouble.  Although of 
>> course if they are helped through it everyone would benefit.
> 
> 
> Step 1: Get cross compilers into Fedora in some official capacity
> Step 2: Resolve cross compilation build problems in individual packages.
> 
> I suspect there are dozens of people/organizaions who have their own 
> cross compilers already.  Likewise, they have their own fixes for the 
> cross compilation failures of packages such as Python and Perl.  We need 
> cross compilation to be more common before those patches are going to 
> make it back into the problem packages.
> 
>> Fedora package configure options as they are would also be extremely 
>> fat on most kinds of embedded hardware.
> 
> 
> Many kinds, anyway.  Suppose it depends on at what point you think of 
> the hardware as being embedded.  Fedora (plus custom kernel) runs fine 
> on a Kurobox, for instance.  I wouldn't want to recompile it natively, 
> though!
> 
> -Brendan (blc at redhat.com)
> 
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