Re: Touch & Mobile

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 14:29 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> If somebody is interested in doing the upstream work to get support for
> some ARM devices, I'm pretty sure that our build systems could handle
> cross-compilation.

The current gnome-ostree builds are a hybrid of cross builds (via Yocto)
to "ostbuild" which is same-arch chroot builds (like rpm+mock or dpkg
+pbuilder).

So the initial buildroot could be made cross from an x86 host.  But
we can't cross build *everything* though due to gtk-doc and
gobject-introspection mainly:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592311

So the executive summary here is that we'd need actual ARM hardware for
builds, or we'd need to resort to QEMU.  Or we'd need to rewrite
everything using g-i to be using an IDL.