What would you like to cross-compile?

Ricardo Salveti ricardo.salveti at linaro.org
Mon Aug 29 17:17:39 UTC 2011


Cross posting at ubuntu-devel.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio at linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We (Developer Platform) are looking into making Ubuntu/Debian more
> cross-compile friendly. In order to
> decide what to focus on on first, I'd like to ask from input from you
> - what would you like to be able to
> cross-compile for the Linaro Ubuntu evaluation builds? We know a lot
> of people (everyone?) cross-compiles
> kernels already, and don't need help from distribution. What else do
> people compile often enough that
> cross-compiling would help?

>From previous experience I remember there were a lot of people wanting
to be able to cross build Qt, as it takes almost one day to build it
at Launchpad's builders.

Besides that being able to cross build the deliverables from other
Linaro WGs would also be a good start, like:
 * glcompbench
 * glmark2
 * powertop
 * powerdebug
 * libjpeg-turbo

Cheers,
-- 
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo



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