Fedora and Cross Compiling
Brendan Conoboy
blc at redhat.com
Fri Jun 15 22:28:49 UTC 2007
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Why? To the host, a target's binaries are non-executable,
> host-independent blobs of binary data (==arch).
I see where you're coming from here, but can't quite agree. For the
greater purpose of cross compilation discussion, I'll leave it there for
now.
> Let me try to elaborate:
> You want to mix different archs inside of the host's rpmdb.
Yes, definitely a place the build system has to intervene.
[snip]
> rpm-wise the working principle probably would be very similar to that of
> how mock and mach setup their chroots.
Yes, in-fact, leveraging mock is going to a key to cross building bliss.
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