From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-la0-x236.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::236]) by metis.ext.pengutronix.de with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WDxtb-0007V5-Ew for ptxdist@pengutronix.de; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:08:30 +0100 Received: by mail-la0-f54.google.com with SMTP id y1so8382405lam.13 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 07:08:05 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140213145734.GD17120@pengutronix.de> References: <20140213145734.GD17120@pengutronix.de> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:08:05 -0500 Message-ID: From: Jon Ringle Subject: Re: [ptxdist] getdev host packages Reply-To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de List-Id: PTXdist Development Mailing List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: ptxdist-bounces@pengutronix.de Errors-To: ptxdist-bounces@pengutronix.de To: "ptxdist@pengutronix.de" On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Michael Olbrich wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 09:40:13AM -0500, Jon Ringle wrote: >> One issue that I've run across is that most of our developers have x86 >> machines and our build machine is x86_64, so the host-*-dev.tar.gz >> packages don't work because they are built for the wrong kind of host. > > I never thought about that. Maybe we should add the host arch to the file > name here? That's a good idea. Do it for cross-* packages too. Then we won't try to download {cross,host}-*-dev.tar.gz if the file names don't match with the host arch. > >> However, is there any reason to think that the other non host >> *-dev.tar.gz would be ok to use on x86 if they were built on x86_64 >> that are target arm? > > Well, all "cross-*" packages will have the same problems. Other than that, > I don't think so. Some packages may create host tools, but those should not > be visible past the install stage. You can verify that easily: Just check > the architecture of all executables in the devpkgs with 'file'. Anything > !arm will be a problem. > > Michael > > -- > Pengutronix e.K. | | > Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | > Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | > Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | > > -- > ptxdist mailing list > ptxdist@pengutronix.de -- ptxdist mailing list ptxdist@pengutronix.de