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Yocto, which we use at work, manages it just fine to build a whole embedded Linux distro. So I don't see why Fedora couldn't make it work if they wanted. You co
by VorpalWay 7mo ago
Yocto, which we use at work, manages it just fine to build a whole embedded Linux distro. So I don't see why Fedora couldn't make it work if they wanted. You could even scp over the test suites to run that on native systems if you wanted.
- mort96 7mo agoYocto manages it thanks to the tireless effort of a community of people maintaining patches and unholy hacks for a ton of software to make it cross compilable. And they have nowhere near the amount of recipes that Fedora has.
- VorpalWay 7mo agoThis is true, but the hacks are mostly in the C and C++ recipes as I understand it. Something like Rust or especially Go or Zig is far easier to cross compile. I personally found cross compiling Rust easy, as long as you don't have C dependencies. If you have C dependencies it becomes way harder. This suggests that spending time to upstream cross compilation fixes would be worth it for everyone, and probably even in the C world, 20% of the packages need 80% of the effort.
- mort96 7mo agoI wonder if Fedora packages any C and C++ software?
- NetMageSCW 7mo agoI wonder how much of Fedora is written in Rust?