COPR for ARM?

[Martin Kolman]

On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 18:36 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 7 November 2015 at 17:51, Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <
> > smooge at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > 
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> > > On Nov 7, 2015 13:50, "Neal Gompa" <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Why don't we do emulated builds (like how OBS does it for ARM)?
> > > > 
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> > > The attempts at emulated builds have usually been slower than the
> > > hardware
> > > builds
> > 
> > Are they unusable? I find it hard to believe that emulated builds
> > are that
> > horrible for building in when we don't have much hardware for ARM
> > builds...
> > 
> > 
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> If we are talking about cross-compiling emultation builds (some
> people
> use that term so I need to make sure I am clear) then I think we
> haven't looked into it because we don't do cross-compiles in the main
> build system. If we are talking about using qemu to emulate arm, the
> problem is that the speed was so slow that it was interfering with
> builds thinking they were broken (timed out) when they were just
> really slow. However that was a long time ago (2 years?) so it may
> have improved.
The Mer project OBS[0] uses qemu ARM emulation and the speed seems to
be fine. Also I think the production builds for Sailfish OS are done
the same way.

[0] https://build.merproject.org/
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> Stephen J Smoogen.