From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Enrico Weigelt Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), linux-embedded@vger list Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:25:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20080612182529.GB7423@nibiru.local> References: <1209577322.25560.402.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <200806102235.09598.rob@landley.net> <484F66F8.4020409@snapgear.com> <200806111941.51221.rob@landley.net> Reply-To: weigelt@metux.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200806111941.51221.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux Embedded Maillist * Rob Landley schrieb: > Cross compiling breaks stuff, yes. > > Most packages don't cross compile at all. Debian has somewhere north of > 30,000 packages. Every project that does large scale cross compiling > (buildroot, gentoo embedded, timesys making fedora cross compile, etc) tends > to have about 200 packages that cross compile more or less easily, another > 400 or so that can be made to cross compile with _lot_ of effort and a large > enough rock, and then the project stalls at about that size. The problem is: most embedded projects don't make really general-purpose fixes (instead strange things like hacking up autogenerated files), so they can't feed back to upstream. IMHO, a huge waste of working time. Did someone ever hear of the OSS-QM project ? > Some of the other build systems out there hook qemu application emulation up > to the kernel's misc binary support so a ./configure that builds arm > executables can run them. WTF ?! cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------