[fedora-arm] where to look for fedora cross toolchain SRPMS

[Andy Green]

On 12/22/10 13:35, Somebody in the thread at some point said:

Hi -

> Have you considered adding this info to the Fedora ARM wiki?  It would
> certainly be more accessible there than buried in a mailing list post
> somewhere.  If you're a Fedora packager, you may also look into hosting
> RPMs of the cross chain in a fedorapeople repository

I kind of hoped the originators of the cross stuff would uplevel to it 
and keep doing what they had been doing, but it seems that it's not 
their focus right now.

I'm not a Fedora packager... but I signed up at the site and if the ACLs 
will let me I will update the wiki page for the current situation at least.

> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedorapeople_Repos).  armv5tel and armv7l
> cross toolchains would probably be of the most interest, and may even be
> parallel installable.

Yeah they should be parallel-installable from what I remember.

> There are also a couple of review requests open looking to get cross
> packages into Fedora's main repositories; is maintaining cross tools a
> goal of the SIG?

I don't know what its formal goals are, but I think it should be part of 
ARM (and MIPS) Fedora at least as far as being able to cook kernels with 
it.  Bootloaders and kernels are kind of uniquely in need of cross 
because by definition if you're working on them you often won't have a 
reliable native environment.

However the cost of trying to build other things cross in a sane way 
soon gets out of control so it seems wise to leave everything else 
native-built.  Packaged kernels and bootloaders can also be done native.

-Andy