On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 01:58:19AM +0100, avr wrote: > > > > You're actually porting Ubuntu to MIPS? I assume you're aware that porting > > a > > huge codebase to an architecture it didn't support before requires a > > significant amount of QA. > > I'm using glibc, gcc and binutils from debian, which makes most of the pain > go away. And > most of the software did actually support the architecture when it was still > in debian. So > the only problematic packages will be those where careless ubuntu patches > break stuff > specifically for mipsel. So far I've compiled 100's of them with very few > problems.
Yeah, but compiling is one thing and running is another. I've seen runtime portability bugs that render a package completely unusable live for several years, and even make their way to stable releases, and that is on Debian which supposedly has lots of people testing the code. What I mean to say is that even if fixing bugs might be easy for a skilled developer, finding them can be a real PITA when you don't have millions of people testing everything in day-to-day usage. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
