Yep, you can build software if you unpack a SFP rootfs on a hard-float system.
It is weird since in PA yum/rpm will happily install i686 bits on an
x86_64 system.
Perhaps that is a gross over-simplification but since we are dropping
SFP bits starting with f19 .... who cares, right?

Regards,
--Jon Disnard



On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Adam Goode <[email protected]> wrote:
> But I believe it would work if I unpacked a softfloat root filesystem
> and did a chroot into it. At that point, only the kernel is involved,
> and it doesn't care what kind of binaries you're running.
>
> I understand it is not a supported thing, and I am ok with this. Yum
> and mock work a certain way and rely on the host's yum. Changing that
> seems like a lot of work for little gain.
>
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Adam Goode <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> with mock-1.1.30-1.fc18.noarch
>>>
>>> I am running this command:
>>>
>>> mock -v --target=arm -r fedora-18-arm init
>>>
>>>
>>> But it fails. armhfp works fine. I can't figure out what is possibly
>>> going wrong.
>>>
>>
>> you can not mix and match hard and soft floating point so rpm wont
>> allow you to install sfp rpms on a hfp system so you cant init a softfp
>> chroot. its plain not a supported thing.  you will need to use a softfp
>> image to build softfp
>>
>> Dennis
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