[fedora-arm] armv7hl Koji Builders

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Chris Tyler <chris at tylers.info> wrote:

> I'm starting to prepare for the armv7hl koji builders... a few thoughts:
>
> - I don't think we can have builders that do both armv5tel and armv7hl,
> because the mock environment is populated with packages from outside the
> chroot (i.e., mock populates the directory and then does the chroot).
> Thus, any scriptlets will execute in the wrong environment. This should
> be a rare occurrence, but since hardfp and softfp happily link together
> and *do the wrong thing*, we need to avoid this scenario.
>
> - We haven't planned to do multiarch for arm, but it might be desired in
> some contexts, particularly if proprietary software is available only
> with a particular ABI (e.g., Flash in softfp only?). Multiarch might
> also permit builders to do both armv5tel and armv7hl. I think the cost
> (effort, storage space) probably outweighs the benefits but the
> discussion is worthwhile.
>
> - It would be really nice to get ld patched so that attempting to link
> hardfp and softfp would produce an error, instead of silently producing
> undefined results.
>
> - I'd like to build F15 on both armv5tel and armv7hl at the same time,
> i.e., submitting to a.k.fo.o with a target of dist-f15 will kick off a
> build on both variants by default (like 32-/64-bit builds on other
> archs). To this end, Paul Whalen is looking at putting together an
> armv5tel seed package set that matches the emerging armv7hl seed package
> set as closely as possible.
>
>
I've already done some work on the armv5tel F-15 packaging but as we should
rebuild all the hardfp packages within koji anyway from the initial out of
koji builds I think we should be able to do them both together within koji
without needing to do it separately.

Peter
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