[pkg-fso-maint] qemubuilder + distcc

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

At Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:33:43 +0200,
Luca Capello wrote:
> 
> [1  <text/plain (quoted-printable)>]
> Hi Timo!
> 
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:22 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> > [Cc to pkg-fso-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org since they might be
> > interested]
> 
> They are, thank you.
> 
> > I read your qemubuilder+distcc thoughts from
> >
> > http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2008-Sep-1.html.en
> >
> > with interest since I need to build package for the openmoko
> > freerunner. I installed distcc and emdebian-tools packages

Thanks for the info!


> Kudos for the effort, but I'm not sure ATM these packages are useful:
> they are not like "native" packages, but instead cross-compiled ones.
> 
> The first problem I see is that I'm quite sure that they'll be never
> accepted into Debian.  The second one is that they don't use the buildd
> infrastructure [1], which means that they can generate/hide different
> errors.

I think it's quite important that we have the ability to
edit/compile/run the code on developer machines fast.  We can be
pedantic about what gets into the official archive, but it's much
creative than having to hack up cross-compilation support for every
single package. (well, not as fast as cross-compilation, but much
faster than native builds or native emulated builds).

So, I think it's valuable to have some native support or helper
installer scripts for distcc cross-compilation setup.


regards,
	junichi
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