On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 07:21:51AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On 09/01/2010 06:41 AM, David Howells wrote: >> >> Would it be worth our while putting into Fedora basic gcc and binutils rpms >> for cross compilers for all the Linux arches? I keep finding the need to >> compile kernels for arches other than the x86_64 boxes I normally use, and I >> keep borrowing prebuilt compilers off others (usually Al Viro - thanks Al!) >> to >> do this. >> >> However, as the kernel advances, older compilers cease being able to compile >> it, so I have to go finding new compilers again. >> >> It would be much easier if I could just yum install them. >> >> Any thoughts on whether it would be worthwhile? > >I can't see why it wouldn't be. There's even a precedent for it: >https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Windows_cross_compiler
There are other cross compilers for actual architectures as well. Arm, msp430, and avr I think. Overall, the idea sounds very worthwhile to me. josh -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
