[Linaro-dev] linaro build system (was Re: Availability of hardware for Linaro development?)

[JD Zheng]

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> > Would it not make more sense to simply standardize on a readily
> > available toolchain such as CodeSourcery's Lite ARM toolchain?
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> Excellent suggestion! :-)
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> Hello,

I just subscribed to this maillist and am very interested in build system
setup for linaro as a long time embedded developer (half of my time on UI
system and half on BSP/distribution) and of course most on ARM :-)

I certainly suggest CodeSourcery toolchain too!

But build system is more than just gcc, binutil and libc and in
distributions, it is often bound to package system, and tools to create a
clean chroot to install dependencies automatically.

Some tools like scratchbox basically "pretend" the cross compiling to be
native to avoid/minimize special patches for cross compiling (we can't
guarantee code from upstream are always cross compiling friendly).

OBS(Opensuse Build System) does native compiling through QEMU and it also
can be used similar to scratchbox, i.e., native compiling using cross gcc,
native(x86)bash/perl/python to speed up the build.

I think Debian/Ubuntu and most other dist are similar to OBS too, while
traditional embedded linux doesn't have pkg system and using cross compiling
directly.

So my question is what will be the default build system, which, I guess, is
part of deliveries? Since linaro is not a distribution, will it be
dist-agnostic? (Don't get me wrong as I am a Debian/Ubuntu fan :-) ).

Thanks.
Jiandong Zheng
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