On 10/15/2013 10:07 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote: > On 10/15/2013 03:33 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:18:19PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >>> As Dick says, this completely breaks cross-compilation of Boost. >> >> Well, can't say it is a good thing... as a workaround maybe supplying >> precompiled (preassembled!) object for that couple of file could be >> useful, too. > > I am just wondering - don't those files included in the CERN branch > (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cern-kicad/kicad/testing/files/head:/common/system/) > > solve the problem? If no - what is wrong with them, maybe we can > introduce some modifications? > I was able to build the KiCad using these files on every supported > platform (actually the tool framework and the push and shove router > depends on them).
Thanks Orson. Not to make a mountain out of molehill, one of our supported platforms is desktop "linux". Desktop Linux does not imply x86 or x86_64. It implies any desktop linux. This includes multiple processor architectures, not the least of which is ARM. Some folks have already had KiCad running on ARM. ARM will be a player for the indefinite future of linux. ARM is supported in boost::context. boost::context does not support mingw's binutils. It was the choice to use co-routines that comes at this cost. It is not a high cost, but not negligible. Probably the path of least resistance, from here, is to add the binutils patch to our boost ExternalProject_Add() patch set, re-enable boost::context, and then keep submitting these patches upstream. I don't think we've done that even for the current boost patch. We can ping the patch requests from time to time, offer them under different submitter names, make noise. Dick > > Regards, > Orson > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
