Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (349 mails)

[Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@xxxxxxx>]

Ulrich Hecht wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> > 2.2a.1a Use rpm --noscripts. Nobody knows, what will happen, but one
> > could expect, that the package will be still usable for compilation.
> > It is obvious, that the target sysroot will not be usable by emulators
> > directly.
> >
> > 2.2a.1b Use virtual host for installation. You will get a perfect
> > image of the target system, but it is expected to be much slower.
> >
> > Obviously 2.2a.1a is the only acceptable solution.
>
> Actually, all you need to do is to copy a QEMU userspace emulator into 
> the sysroot and set up binfmt_misc appropriately, and the scripts should 
> work just fine. There will of course be ways to break this, but usually 
> pre/post scripts do not do anything complicated or expensive.

It could work only for platforms, for which emulator exists.

It will cost about 95% of power. If you will use native icecream hosts
for parallel compilation, it will still cost about 80% of power (make
has to run natively, linker will probably run natively as well.

-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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