ARM rebuild

Jerone Young jerone.young at canonical.com
Sun Nov 15 15:32:32 GMT 2009


On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 12:52 -0600, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 009 at 03:58:24PM -0600, David Mandala wrote:
> > >   * Recompile the Archive using ARMv7 with soft floating point and
> ARM
> > >     THUMB 2 instructions.

If things are going to be compiled for ARMv7, why compiling with "soft
floating point"?

Seems you would loose most your benefit by not using a hardware floating
point.


> > 
> > We should be a little careful about how we phrase our commitment
> here.
> > As yet, we don't have the capability to do binary-only rebuilds on a
> > single architecture, so the only way to rebuild all armel binaries
> would
> > be to reupload every source package in the archive. This is a pretty
> > good way to lose Ubuntu mirrors, and in the past we've decided that
> we
> > didn't want to do that after all.
> > 
> > I think it should b 




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