Successfully tested both the gcc4 compiler on x86_64 with a simple
program (fbdebug) and the gcc4-armhf cross-compiler to build a very old
u-boot port for Galaxy Nexus (a MR will follow soon) which failed to
boot with either newer version (6 and 8).
[skip ci]: already went through
Run 'pmbootstrap aportgen gcc6-aarch64 gcc6-armhf' again and commit
the resulting changes, as these packages are meant to be always
auto-generated and therefore in sync with main/gcc6.
This changes the pkgver to 9999, as it was required in main/gcc6 to
avoid conflicts with Alpine's gcc6 package.
Regenerate these aports, so the test case does not complain anymore
that they are outdated. Adds armv7 to the arch lines, as that is the
aportgen change which was done in pmbootstrap!1730.
These can be manually generated when one really wants to cross compile
from arm to x86_64. Usually this is not needed, so let's save the
compile time. [skip ci]
This covers most use cases and saves a lot of build time. Can be
changed on demand. Again, this simplifies package building as part of
the new build infrastructure effort. [skip ci]
I thought only having specific symlinks was enough, and it was for one
kernel. However, to make sure it works with all kernels, let's just add
symlinks for all the binutils.
Overview:
In order to execute foreign arch binaries on the host system, we are
using the Linux kernel's binfmt_misc feature in combination with
static builds of QEMU. Before this patch, the statically compiled
QEMU binaries were taken from Debian (mostly because I did not realize
that Alpine ships them as well). Now we can use the ones from the aport.
Benefits:
This allows us to easily update and patch the QEMU executables, we
don't need to be in sync with Debian's versions anymore.
Alpine's package is more modular, so we can save some download,
install, zap time, as well as disk space: setting up an armhf chroot
with pmbootstrap took ~102 MB before, now it's ~18 MB.
Detailed changes:
* Remove `cross/qemu-user-static-repack` aport
* Add `data/qemu-user-binfmt.txt` with the binfmt_misc flags for ELF
binaries of various arches (extracted from Debian's packaging)
* When parsing that file, don't write verbose messages to
`pmbootstrap log` anymore, only to the verbose log (can be enabled
with `pmbootstrap -v`)
* Rename `pmb.parse.arch.alpine_to_debian()` to ...`alpine_to_qemu()`
* Rename `arch_debian` to `arch_qemu`
Oliver Smith