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

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Is there anything in the Meego nspr build for hardfp that can help shed
light on that problem?


> 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.
>
>
For perl what about requirements for autoconf/automake?

Peter
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