Re: ARM/x86 builds for xdg-app runtimes

[Greg KH <gregkh linuxfoundation org>]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 05:01:52PM -0700, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At the West Coast hackfest, we brought up the topic of building xdg-app
> runtimes for other architectures; they're currently only built for x86-64.
>
> For x86 systems there should not be many additional requirements on the
> hardware side, but for ARM builds we need machines to natively build the
> runtimes on.
> Some people mentioned they could possibly have machines to donate to the cause;
> another possibility would be to get a slice on existing builders that
> distributions like Fedora use for their ARM builds. This brought up the
> question about where the xdg-app runtime builders currently live, and whether
> there is any particular requirement on the infrastructure. (For example, do all
> builders need to be in the same location?)
>
> Another possibility that was brought up is using something like Scratchbox2 and
> do cross-compilation for ARM on our existing infrastructure. Does anyone have
> experience with that sort of setup?

Why do you want to build packages when no one even has the hardware to
do a real build on ?

Who is asking for such pre-built things?

greg k-h