On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 13:55:00 -0700 > "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> wrote: > >> On 10/08/2014 01:46 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote: >> > >> > Fedora doesn't cross-compile i686 builds because of problems like >> > this. It sets up an i386 chroot and runs all native tools inside of >> > it. >> > >> >> Breaking cross-compilation is not okay, though, regardless of what >> Fedora does. It should be okay to, for example, build an i386 kernel on >> an ARM box. >> > > I think they tried that for a while, and ended up chasing compiler > and makefile bugs all day. And then there's the software that wants > to run self-tests as part of its build...
The Fedora kernel package cross builds the other way (ARM on i386) just fine. It might build ARM->i386 as well, but that's less useful. At any rate, Peter is talking about the kernel, not software in general. josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
