[fedora-arm] Agreed linker path changes still not in Fedora

[Steve McIntyre]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 08:45:42PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>Hi Steve,

Hi Peter,

>> *Every* major distro working on ARM has implemented what was agreed by
>> all of us in the conf call. Except Fedora. At this point, the message
>> *seems* to be that Fedora developers just do not care about working
>> with the rest of the community, and that's a real shame. Please, let's
>> work together to get this fixed.
>
>There is no "except Fedora" here. To quote your own minutes [3]
>"Fedora; they're planning to do it Real Soon Now." from the meeting,
>I'm not sure what was said in the meeting regarding releases but this
>was something I personally didn't want to ship 5 minutes before we put
>a major release out. That said it will most definitely be in Fedora
>18, some of it has already landed and the rest will be very soon and
>quite possibly rolled back into F-17 once its been tested.

There was urgency in the agreement - we all agreed that there should
*not* be any distro releases of ARM hard-float using the wrong linker
path. The Ubuntu developers managed to make the minor changes needed
and QA them in 2 weeks before they released. Fedora are taking *much*
longer to implement those same changes, which is really frustrating.

>In all likely hood we'll support this in a stable release before both
>Debian (I couldn't work out their next stable release date from their
>site) and possible even OpenSUSE depending on if it makes the 12.2
>release.

*Please* don't release F17/arm without the linker change. The main
point of the cross-distro standardisation work is to fix the older
fragmentation problems in the ARM Linux community. Releasing an
incompatible and broken v7 hard-float distro will set that goal back a
long way, and cause problems and confusion for users and developers.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve McIntyre                                steve.mcintyre at linaro.org
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