I'm wondering if it is worth having a mipsel package on lilypond.org
(when 2.14 comes out, maybe).
I'd be happy to do it, if I can. A chance to help and learn something
new.
This should be discussed on -devel rather than -user.
I would be happy to build+include mipsel packages, as long as
somebody else modifies GUB to handle it, and they fix any breakage
in those packages. If they stop GUB from compiling a release, I
would simply comment out the mipsel compilation and release the
rest.
However, cross-compiling is a fairly involved process and requires
a great deal of technical knowledge. Don't expect much help,
because very few people have any experience with it.
The main question is, does anyone really want it done.
I did a lot of mipsel development in the past, so cross-compilation is
not a problem, but it all comes to user value. A few months ago, I had
a pressing request, from a real-life user for whom I do custom features
in Lilypond, to produce Win32 builds, and I started looking at digging
inside GUB; but when I presented to them an estimate of how many days it
would take to have a functional GUB platform, it became clear that my
time would be much wiser spent on actual Lilypond development (score
layout functionality), rather than GUB, and that using Linux instead of
Windows was not *that* unsurmountable a problem to justify potentially
up to two weeks lost to GUB work.
So if one is about to do something with a real purpose (mipsel Lilypond
appliance?? completeness of a distro??) I would expect many people with
the right skills to be able to do it; on the other hand, as an academic
exercise I personally would not find it the most attractive to jump on
-- there are many other interesting problems to solve.
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