[fedora-arm] Fedora 10/ARM?

[Kedar Sovani]

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 05:48 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
> 
> Kedar Sovani wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 18:39 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> >> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 11:11:09AM +0530, Kedar Sovani wrote:
> >>
> >>>> With the announcement of Fedora-10, I am sure people would want to know
> >>>> whether anyone is building F10 packages for ARM. 
> >>>>
> >>>> I have been doing just that. So far I have built a set of basic packages
> >>>> (including gcc) that boots F10 on ARM. These packages are, for now,
> >>>> built on an F8 build root. Once I have rpm-build built for F10, I could
> >>>> rebuild all the packages on an F10 build root. And then make the rpms
> >>>> available somewhere.
> >>> Ok, I now have the build closure with rpm-build available for F10. Thus
> >>> far, I have upwards of 450 rpms built for F10 (on an F8 root). 
> >>>
> >>> I have now started re-buildling these rpms on F10. While building rpms
> >>> on the F10 root, one problem that I see is some binaries keep crashing. 
> >>>
> >>> I could narrow down the problem to "-fstack-protector" option to gcc. If
> >>> I do not pass that option, things work fine. Else, I see the binary
> >>> seg-faulting. Is anyone aware of a known issues with gcc-4.3 on ARM, as
> >>> far as stack protector is concerned?
> > 
> > 
> >> Kedar,
> >>
> >> Can you try whether the fix for gcc PR35965 resolves this?  E.g.
> >> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-06/msg01641.html .
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > Great! This patch worked. 
> > 
> >> thanks,
> >> Lennert
> > 
> > 
> > /me fires package rebuilds with the patched gcc...
> 
> 
> With Kedar's work, does that mean it would be possible to get F10 going 
> on the Openmoko devices now?
> 

I am currently building for the target armv5tel. I suppose Openmoko
needs armv4t?

But once an F10 root for ARM is available, you should be able to rebuild
for armv4t.

> Thanks,
> 
> Phil.


Kedar.