Fedora and Cross Compiling
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Jun 13 07:55:08 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 09:38 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> I think you on the one side and I and Ralf on the other side are talking about
> different things, let me try to clarify. I believe you are talking about cross
> building the Fedora distro to run as a replacement distro on embedded devices,
> in which case I agree with what you say above.
Yes. To start with, I have been thinking about Fedora->Fedora (or at
least Fedora->Linux) cross-compilation.
> However I (and Ralf to some extend to AFAIK) am talking about building
> executables to run on an embedded platform using the manufacturer provided
> distro for that platform. For example with the gp2x (a handheld game device /
> video player) there is a distro in onboard FLASH and you can insert an sd-card
> with your own applications.
>
> In this case completely different rules apply.
Yes, this is true. Where there are ABI differences, it makes sense to
have a toolchain version which matches your target environment.
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dwmw2
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