On 30 August 2011 18:26, Konstantinos Margaritis markos@genesi-usa.com wrote:
On 29 August 2011 17:22, Riku Voipio riku.voipio@linaro.org wrote:
What else do people compile often enough that cross-compiling would help?
Ok, not directly related to Linaro only, but from the armhf buildd configs:
quantlib-swig openvswitch pivy ns3 qtwebkit webkitgtk+ koffice mrpt enblend-enfuse bzr (the tests take forever)
cross-compilation wouldn't help here ;)
shogun gcc-4.4 gcc-4.5 gcc-4.6 libvigraimpex pdftk yade apt-cacher-ng (this for some reason doesn't seem very complicated but it starts to build everything in parallel, load avg is >50 on this package, hm, forget about this, I'll just probably file a BR on the package) rawtherapee rosegarden
Maybe not all are cross-compilable, but all these packages take almost/more than a day to build on an EfikaMX. I guess it might be faster on a pandaboard, but still having them to cross-build on a fast box would be nice.
In general I would still like to focus on software *people* compile often enough to get annoyed by slow native builds. Eg. to cut down the edit-compile-run-debug cycle time. Some obscure software that nobody uses but still takes ages to compile on buildds would be nice to cross-compile, but to who? For the official archives these packages still need to be compiled natively.
Riku