[Arm-dev] a plague farm ?

[Jacco Ligthart]

On 04/24/2015 06:06 PM, Troy Dawson wrote:
>
> I wish I could say I had a nice way.  It seems to be 90% of the work
> on 10% of the packages.
> For the most part, doing the build loop like you said works for alot
> of the packages.  The majority of the packages that needed tweaking
> are the ones that RHEL7 has marked as x86_64 only. 
> I will give this tip.  Don't start on Fedora 20 for your build repo,
> or even use it partway through.  I did that on my arm build and was
> delighted that so many package built.  Then after a month I started
> checking dependencies on them.  Hardly anything would install because
> of the crazy dependencies.  I think libpng was the biggest issue.  It
> wanted the version of libpng in Fedora 20, which was newer than the
> version in RHEL7.  Had to rebuild the whole thing again.
>
Similarly, don't start with fedora18. Here the biggest issues are libffi
and libtasn1 (iirc).
For RedSleeve 7.1 I did not build many of the x86_64 only stuff. Only
corosync and golang. All the rest is not really needed or rightfully
x86_64 only.

For reference this is the overview of the issues encountered when
building for armv5tel:
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.redsleeve.org/pub/el7/7.1/RS7.1_issuelog.html

If relevant, the patches I made should also be there, but the syncing
has not completed yet.
(the older patches for Redsleeve 7.0 are here:
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.redsleeve.org/pub/el7/alpha/patches/
and here:
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.redsleeve.org/pub/el7/alpha-updates/patches/
)

Jacco