[fedora-arm] Fedora 15 ARM hardfp Virtual FAD (Fedora Activity Day) - TODAY

[Jon Masters]

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 13:35 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 00:36 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> 
> > We are hosting another Fedora 15 hardfp Virtual Fedora Activity Day
> > today, at 14:00UTC (10:00 Eastern Daylight Time). The purpose of this
> > session is to co-ordinate the bootstrap of F15 hardfp (hardware floating
> > point). Going forward, the proposal is that these be on Fridays.
> > 
> > You can find a lot more detail here, along with all the pre-reqs/bits:
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Fedora15_HardFP_Bootstrap_Virtual_FAD_20110622
> > 
> > That page contains links to the general instructions on:
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Fedora15_HardFP_Bootstrap
> > 
> > Be sure you follow the instructions to use an armv7hl-YOUR_FAS_USERNAME
> > or group name branch so that we can track who is doing what, and more
> > easily back out changes if you/we discover a problem with your setup.
> 
> Please pull and rebase to ensure you are using the stage2/recipe.d split
> out build recipes for your branches/pull requests. This was just changed
> over in the last few minutes, but it is a much easier approach.

There's a problem with the nspr build. green previously modified it to
enable thumb instructions to get the build to work, but unfortunately
that doesn't actually do what we wanted (and we don't want Thumb2). The
configure script actually tries to build armv5tel binaries regardless.
I'm going to get back to reworking that in the morning as a dep for RPM.
Then I'll keep churning through rebuilds as time permits.

I think we've made some progress. I remain fairly convinced we can avoid
having a full perl build for authconfig and somehow build rpm without
that for the moment - I'll keep poking. The git tree is up to date, but
please don't play with nspr for the moment while I'm looking at it.

Jon.