[fedora-arm] Fedora ARM Status Meeting 2013-12-04

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Pavel Zhukov <pavel at zhukoff.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 04, 2013 07:28:09 PM Peter Robinson wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Pavel Zhukov <pavel at zhukoff.net> wrote:
>> > On Wednesday, December 04, 2013 07:11:40 PM Peter Robinson wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Pavel Zhukov <pzhukov at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hi list(s),
>> >> >
>> >> > We still doesn't have gnat compiler for %{arm} in Fedora. We (Ada
>> >> > community) have compiled gcc with ada support using gcc-4.8.2 src.rpm
>> >> > and tested in. It seems workable. At least we were able to compile most
>> >> > of the
>> >> > packages from the stack with it.
>> >> > I'd like to discuss way how to get it in Fedora (chicken-egg problem
>> >> > should be solved).
>> >>
>> >> That's relatively straight forward. We need a documented process to
>> >> get it done. Once we have that I can sort it out with rel-eng but we
>> >> would need the gcc maintainer to review/approve it.
>> >>
>> >> Generally what happens is that it would be built (or imported) into a
>> >> side tag build. I suspect it'll be using something like a cross
>> >> compiled version of ada which is then used to compile a native built
>> >> version of ada which is then tagged into rawhide at which point the
>> >> rest of the ada stack would be rebuilt.
>> >
>> > Yes. We cross-compiled bootstrap and compiled native version using it.
>> > It's
>> > original Fedora gcc without any modifications (just added arm to the gnat
>> > arches list) and applied short patch [1]
>> > It was the long process [2] in qemu with all tests performed. I'm going to
>> > recompile it once more time using Cubieboard and move to documentation
>> > step
>> > after.
>>
>> If you document it first I can test it on decent physical HW which
>> should be a lot faster to save you some time.
> I've documented it
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Landgraf/Building_Gnat_ARM
> Can you please verify the build?

You don't have instructions for how I would cross compile.

Can you also start a new thread, it shouldn't have hijacked the meeting thread