On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 5:18 PM Demi Marie Obenour <demioben...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 9/1/21 1:55 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > > In autotools parlance, cross-compilation is defined by the inability of > > running even the most trivial program that was just compiled. > > It is often possible to avoid this problem using qemu in user-mode > emulation mode, but even that is not needed here. >
It is often not good enough for making reliable package builds, which is why we exclusively build natively unless there's literally no choice. > > What you seem to be arguing for is using a multilib build environment > > that leans towards 64-bit, overridden towards 32-bit mode using build > > flags. Like the environment that you have to use if you want to build > > 32-bit binaries on Red Hat Enterprise Linux outside of Red Hat. That > > just does not work in current Koji, and probably does not work that well > > with direct mock invocations, either. It's the reason why there are no > > 32-bit package builds in EPEL anymore. > > This can be worked around by replacing /usr/bin/gcc and other binaries > with ones that have been built to produce 32-bit code, but which are > themselves 64-bit programs. > > That said, building a package that isn’t going to be shipped is silly. > In general, Fedora does not build packages that do not get shipped. I'm only aware of a couple like that, and they're repackaging hacks of shipped packages to deal with specific build environment issues. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
