[Arm-dev] a plague farm ?

[Gordan Bobic]

On 2015-04-24 17:18, Jacco Ligthart wrote:
> 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/
> )

There, from The Man, himself - thanks for joining the thread. :)

Gordan