fedora for ARM

[Andy Green]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 07:31 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
>> Manas Saksena wrote:
>>> Andy Green wrote:
>>>> Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
>>>> I have rpm-packaged a bunch of apps for crosscompile (arm9 and avr32)
>>>> here
>>> Did you have to modify rpm/rpmbuild tools? Virtually, every Embedded
>>> Linux vendor has modified rpm to make it behave properly for
>>> cross-building etc. It would be a good idea if we can get this done
>>> right in upstream rpm.
>> No, nothing was needed to change in the build host rpmbuild, it works
>> fine with rpmbuild that comes from FC6 and FC7 as it is including using
>> rpmbuild --target to set the arch.  The spec files are just normal spec
>> files.
> This doesn't match at all with my experience.
> 
> But .. could it be that you are not having redhat-rpm-config installed?
> At least on FC6 it screws up --target, produces invalid *debuginfo*.rpm
> for foreign object formats and many other details.

No it's installed, but --target works... well it works as far as setting
%{_target_cpu} goes which is pretty much all I ask of it.  Note you seem
to need to give an arch-dist-os triplet like this

$ rpmbuild -ba --target=arm-octotux-linux mISDNuser-1.2.0.spec
Building target platforms: arm-octotux-linux
Building for target arm-octotux-linux
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.76322
...
+ make CROSS=/opt/arm/bin/arm-linux- MISDNDIR=../mISDN-1.2.0
'CFLAGS=-I/projects/octotux/packages/rpm/devel-filesystem-arm/usr/include
   -I/projects/octotux/packages/rpm/BUILD/mISDNuser-1.2.0/include
-I/opt/arm/include    -O3' CC=gcc
LDFLAGS=-L/projects/octotux/packages/rpm/devel-filesystem-arm/usr/lib
...

-Andy