On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Jani Monoses <j...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 08/29/2011 08:17 PM, Ricardo Salveti wrote: >> >> Cross posting at ubuntu-devel. >> >> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Riku Voipio<riku.voi...@linaro.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We (Developer Platform) are looking into making Ubuntu/Debian more >>> cross-compile friendly. In order to >>> decide what to focus on on first, I'd like to ask from input from you >>> - what would you like to be able to >>> cross-compile for the Linaro Ubuntu evaluation builds? We know a lot >>> of people (everyone?) cross-compiles >>> kernels already, and don't need help from distribution. What else do >>> people compile often enough that >>> cross-compiling would help? >> >> From previous experience I remember there were a lot of people wanting >> to be able to cross build Qt, as it takes almost one day to build it >> at Launchpad's builders. > > Any of the other packages that take long to build on ARM - LibO, > chromium-browser, firefox, especially since they have their own de-facto > maintainers who then would not need to ask for ARM hw just to debug failed > builds - assuming the build issues are reproduced just as accurately as the > build-results on a cross setup :)
Yeah, those are all huge projects and probably also a good test case for the cross-toolchain in general :-) > Out of curiosity does focusing on a set of packages mean making all their > build-deps multiarch/cross build friendly? Yup, that's the idea. Riku helped porting a bunch of packages to multiarch, but we'd also like to use and test the common use cases so we can show that this actually work ;-) Cheers, -- Ricardo Salveti de Araujo _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
