On Tue, Jul 13 2010, Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 17:11 -0400, Writer, Tim wrote: > > Hmmm. I see a desire to build upstream Xorg from source and being an > unsuspecting builder/newcomer as mutually exclusive. While this > particular error message is a little opaque, the solution is straight > forward and only an apt-get/yum/YaST, etc. away. I think most developers > will have no trouble understanding that building 32-bit anything on a > 64-bit platform requires at least a basic 32-bit development > environment. Once we have 32-bit builds working correctly on 64-bit > systems, it would be useful to add the above error to a FAQ (is there a > FAQ for xorg-driver-geode?) but what else can we do. Most (all?) Linux > distributions are packaged this way, with separate 64-bit and 32-bit > development environments. Even if we would prefer it another way, what > can we reasonably do about it? > > > I agree. Building on as many platforms as possible should not be a > goal for geode.
Agreed. I thought that there was fairly broad agreement in this thread that building a working i386 driver on x86_64 is a useful common case that will benefit many developers. > Because only a dozen or so out of the 240 xorg packages do not build > on large number of platforms, some people don't know if it is a real > build error and report problems. > > The patches I originally suggested were meant to address this low priority > "feature". I thought they addressed the less common case of building a non-working but compilable i386 driver on x86_64. Maybe I was confused. > This seem to have resurrected past proposals which are outside my > competencies. > > Bottom line, there is a requirement to build 32 bit driver on 64 bit > host and this takes precedence. > I am ok with aborting the config with some message to avoid bug > report. Me too. My main concern was that we avoid building non-working drivers because that seems to have more traps for newcomers. > There is still the second I mention to verify. I'm not following you. Tim _______________________________________________ Xorg-driver-geode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-geode
