On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Jani Monoses jani@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 Voipioriku.voipio@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,