Fedora Linaro Cross-Tools

[Al Stone]

Greetings.

For those that have seen or heard about some of the work going
on with Fedora and Linaro [0], there are times when it makes
sense to do work with the cross-compilers for ARMv7/ARMv8 that
Linaro provides.

Unfortunately, these have not until now been packaged for Fedora.

I have created a yum repo [1] that currently has the cross-tools
available for Fedora 18 on x86_64.  These allow you to cross-build
on Fedora, and target Fedora 18 on ARM [2].

Add the following to /etc/yum.repos.d as a new file:

[linaro-tools]
name=linaro-tools
baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/ahs3/linaro-tools/fedora-18/x86_64/

http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/ahs3/linaro-tools/fedora-18/noarch/

http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/ahs3/linaro-tools/fedora-18/SRPMS/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

Then, you should be able to install the cross-tools for the ARM
architecture you want with:

# yum install fedora-linaro-gcc-arm-linux-gnu

or

# yum install fedora-linaro-gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu

Hope these help...feel free to let me know if there's any issues
with them...they work for me but that is never enough testing :).

Notes:
[0] https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG -- Linaro Enterprise Group

[1] The goal is to ultimately get these into Fedora officially,
     but I thought they might be useful before that process has
     been completed.

[2] Tools for cross-building on Fedora with the Linaro environment
     as a target are still a work in progress.

[Dan Horák]

Al Stone píše v Út 12. 02. 2013 v 10:49 -0700:
> Greetings.
>
> For those that have seen or heard about some of the work going
> on with Fedora and Linaro [0], there are times when it makes
> sense to do work with the cross-compilers for ARMv7/ARMv8 that
> Linaro provides.
>
> Unfortunately, these have not until now been packaged for Fedora.

I think that instead of creating a new single purpose cross-tools in
Fedora we should put the effort into the existing cross-binutils and
cross-gcc packages

Dan
> I have created a yum repo [1] that currently has the cross-tools
> available for Fedora 18 on x86_64.  These allow you to cross-build
> on Fedora, and target Fedora 18 on ARM [2].
>
> Add the following to /etc/yum.repos.d as a new file:
>
> [linaro-tools]
> name=linaro-tools
> baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/ahs3/linaro-tools/fedora-18/x86_64/
>
> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/ahs3/linaro-tools/fedora-18/noarch/
>
> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/ahs3/linaro-tools/fedora-18/SRPMS/
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
>
> Then, you should be able to install the cross-tools for the ARM
> architecture you want with:
> # yum install fedora-linaro-gcc-arm-linux-gnu
>
> or
> # yum install fedora-linaro-gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu
>
>
> Hope these help...feel free to let me know if there's any issues
> with them...they work for me but that is never enough testing :).
>
> Notes:
> [0] https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG -- Linaro Enterprise Group
>
> [1] The goal is to ultimately get these into Fedora officially,
>      but I thought they might be useful before that process has
>      been completed.
>
> [2] Tools for cross-building on Fedora with the Linaro environment
>      as a target are still a work in progress.

[Al Stone]

On 02/12/2013 10:58 AM, Dan Horák wrote:
> Al Stone píše v Út 12. 02. 2013 v 10:49 -0700:
> > Greetings.
> >
> > For those that have seen or heard about some of the work going
> > on with Fedora and Linaro [0], there are times when it makes
> > sense to do work with the cross-compilers for ARMv7/ARMv8 that
> > Linaro provides.
> >
> > Unfortunately, these have not until now been packaged for Fedora.
>
> I think that instead of creating a new single purpose cross-tools in
> Fedora we should put the effort into the existing cross-binutils and
> cross-gcc packages

I don't disagree.  The problem is that they are currently very
different source trees; if I can reconcile that, I'll absolutely
put them in the existing cross-binutils and cross-gcc packages.

[Jon Masters]

On 02/12/2013 01:08 PM, Al Stone wrote:
> On 02/12/2013 10:58 AM, Dan Horák wrote:
> > Al Stone píše v Út 12. 02. 2013 v 10:49 -0700:
> > > Greetings.
> > >
> > > For those that have seen or heard about some of the work going
> > > on with Fedora and Linaro [0], there are times when it makes
> > > sense to do work with the cross-compilers for ARMv7/ARMv8 that
> > > Linaro provides.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, these have not until now been packaged for Fedora.
> >
> > I think that instead of creating a new single purpose cross-tools in
> > Fedora we should put the effort into the existing cross-binutils and
> > cross-gcc packages
> I don't disagree.  The problem is that they are currently very
> different source trees; if I can reconcile that, I'll absolutely
> put them in the existing cross-binutils and cross-gcc packages.

I second both viewpoints :) The fact is, Linaro have a toolchain that
contains various bits being worked on, and it absolutely makes sense to
allow folks to leverage that work. Thanks, Al, for doing this.

Jon.