Thanks Martin, I could build bios-crypto from git. It signs and it looks like everything works :)
Thanks everybody for the help. On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Jerry Vonau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 17:51 -0700, John Gilmore wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Jose Prous <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Yes it's a x86 machine, I guess that is the problem. Thanks. > > > > > > Glad that we found the reason. We should add an explicit check in OOB > > > that gives you a more useful error msg. > > > > Instead, you should fix OOB so it works to cross-compile. > > Sorry John, I don't think OOB is fixable without first fixing yum as > imgcreater uses yum to resolve dependencies and install the rpms. The > problem is that yum deduces what arch yum is running on by calling uname > and offers no way to override that variable[1]. The PTB didn't view this > behaviour as a bug, which later cropped up in other places in Fedora > like anaconda[2]. Even Martin felt the effects of this decision[3]. > > Jerry > > 1.https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=172080 > 2.https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367731 > 3. > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-buildsys-list/2009-February/msg00028.html > > > > > We at > > Cygnus spent years making the GNU tools able to cross-compile, and it > > all works. We built a big test infrastructure and made sure that the > > resulting executables were bit-for-bit identical no matter what the > > build host was. It's just your builder script that's unable to > > do it -- and that is under your control. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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