On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 03:04:11PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 09:19, Riku Voipio <riku.voi...@linaro.org> wrote: > > On 31 March 2012 19:52, Dennis Gilmore <den...@gilmore.net.au> wrote: > >> Linaro Connect and other events are probably the worst place for such > >> decisions and discussions to be made. though maybe there is not a good > >> place. the wider community needs to be engaged for greatest acceptance. > >> otherwise then if falls into the vacuum of those attending the events. > >> Like I said its not that it could never happen just that its not been > >> discussed at all. so requesting that distros adopt it is a bit harsh > >> and unrealistic. > > > > At Linaro conference the need for changing linker path was agreed on, > > as well as the need to get a wide community agreement on it. To do the > > latter, an ARM minisummit was organized on at Plumbers 2011 [1]. > > Invites to wide range communities and distributions were sent, and for > > most someone attended. For the people not able to join physically, a > > call-in line was organized (I was on the call for example). With the > > expectation that people who attended in face or on call would convey > > the message back to their own communities. This didn't seemingly > > happen for everyone it seems. > > i agree that the ldso needs changing to something unique so everyone > can start off on the same page with a sane path. i don't think > forcing everyone into the multi-arch stuff that debian is deploying > makes sense though.
I don't see how this forces anyone to implement multi-arch - and I think if that was our agenda, this would be a pretty weak angle for us to take :) > this seems like a fairly behind-the-back maneuver > in terms of slipping it into mainline. You make it sound so sinister! I assure you that making changes like this "behind-the-back" is far from our goal. It has even been brought up for discussion on this very list: http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/cross-distro/2011-October/000078.html _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
