Bug 825461 - Review Request: arm-cortex_m-eabi - Cross Compiling GNU binutils targeted at ARM Cortex-M devices
Summary: Review Request: arm-cortex_m-eabi - Cross Compiling GNU binutils targeted at ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: FE-DEADREVIEW
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Reported: 2012-05-26 15:37 UTC by Rob Gilton
Modified: 2021-08-27 00:45 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-08-27 00:45:21 UTC
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Description Rob Gilton 2012-05-26 15:37:30 UTC
Spec URL: https://www.studentrobotics.org/~rspanton/rpm/arm-cortex_m-eabi/arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils-2.22-1.fc16.src.rpm
SRPM URL: https://www.studentrobotics.org/~rspanton/rpm/arm-cortex_m-eabi/arm-cortex_m3-eabi-binutils.spec
Description: A cross-compiling version of binutils for ARM Cortex-M platforms.  This is the first part of a cross-compiling toolchain for these devices.  gcc, newlib, and gdb will follow after this has been reviewed.

rpmlint outputs no errors or warnings when presented with the spec.

Fedora Account System Username: rspanton

Comment 1 Jason Tibbitts 2013-05-20 18:56:19 UTC
I am triaging old review tickets.  I can't promise a review if you reply, but by closing out the stale tickets we can devote extra attention to the ones which aren't stale.

Both URLs are 404 for me.

Comment 2 Rob Gilton 2013-06-11 14:43:35 UTC
Hi,

These packages are now here:
SRPM: https://xgoat.com/~rob/rpm/arm-cortex_m-eabi/arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils-2.22-1.fc16.src.rpm
Spec: https://xgoat.com/~rob/rpm/arm-cortex_m-eabi/arm-cortex_m3-eabi-binutils.spec

I intend on updating the package to 2.23.1 soon.  I've got somewhat bored of waiting for a review :(

Comment 3 John Dulaney 2013-06-13 22:03:38 UTC
I'll give it a look.

Comment 4 John Dulaney 2013-06-17 18:07:52 UTC
rpmlint on the srpm gives me:

arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils.src: E: description-line-too-long C assemble and link binaries for the arm-cortex_m-eabi platform, instead of for the
arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils.src: E: invalid-spec-name
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 2 errors, 0 warnings.


And on the rpm:

arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils.armv7hl: E: description-line-too-long C assemble and link binaries for the arm-cortex_m-eabi platform, instead of for the
arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils.armv7hl: W: cross-directory-hard-link /usr/arm-cortex_m-eabi/bin/objcopy /usr/bin/arm-cortex_m-eabi-objcopy
arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils.armv7hl: W: cross-directory-hard-link /usr/arm-cortex_m-eabi/bin/ld.bfd /usr/bin/arm-cortex_m-eabi-ld
arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils.armv7hl: W: cross-directory-hard-link /usr/bin/arm-cortex_m-eabi-ld.bfd /usr/arm-cortex_m-eabi/bin/ld.bfd
arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils.armv7hl: W: cross-directory-hard-link /usr/arm-cortex_m-eabi/bin/nm /usr/bin/arm-cortex_m-eabi-nm
arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils.armv7hl: W: cross-directory-hard-link /usr/arm-cortex_m-eabi/bin/ld /usr/bin/arm-cortex_m-eabi-ld.bfd
arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils.armv7hl: W: cross-directory-hard-link /usr/bin/arm-cortex_m-eabi-objdump /usr/arm-cortex_m-eabi/bin/objdump
arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils.armv7hl: W: cross-directory-hard-link /usr/bin/arm-cortex_m-eabi-strip /usr/arm-cortex_m-eabi/bin/strip
arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils.armv7hl: W: cross-directory-hard-link /usr/bin/arm-cortex_m-eabi-ranlib /usr/arm-cortex_m-eabi/bin/ranlib
arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils.armv7hl: W: cross-directory-hard-link /usr/arm-cortex_m-eabi/bin/as /usr/bin/arm-cortex_m-eabi-as
arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils.armv7hl: W: cross-directory-hard-link /usr/arm-cortex_m-eabi/bin/ar /usr/bin/arm-cortex_m-eabi-ar
arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils.armv7hl: W: no-manual-page-for-binary arm-cortex_m-eabi-ld.bfd
arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils.armv7hl: W: non-standard-dir-in-usr arm-cortex_m-eabi
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 1 errors, 12 warnings.


rpmlint on the debuginfo rpm gives me:

arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils-debuginfo.armv7hl: E: incorrect-fsf-address /usr/src/debug/arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils/binutils-2.22/bfd/elf-vxworks.c
arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils-debuginfo.armv7hl: E: incorrect-fsf-address /usr/src/debug/arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils/binutils-2.22/bfd/elf-vxworks.h
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 2 errors, 0 warnings.


The version of the license you have listed in the spec is not the same as in COPYING; in COPYING it is GPLv2, spec lists GPLv3+

Are you sure that texinfo is the only build requires?  Regular binutils requires quite a bit more


Fix the above, and I'll aprove.

Comment 5 Rob Gilton 2013-12-30 01:37:30 UTC
Hi John,

I've finally got around to dealing with the issues you've raised, and I've updated the version in the process.

New spec: https://xgoat.com/~rob/rpm/arm-cortex_m-eabi/arm-cortex_m3-eabi-binutils.spec
New SRPM: https://xgoat.com/~rob/rpm/arm-cortex_m-eabi/arm-cortex_m-eabi-binutils-2.24-1.fc20.src.rpm

rpmlint will give you some warnings from those, but these are apparently to be expected from cross-compiling things.  This thread: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-January/160806.html contains someone asking questions about those rpmlint warnings.  The warnings from rpmlint fall into the following groups:

 - cross-directory-hard-link: According to that thread (and other shipping cross-compiling binutils, e.g. avr-binutils), this is OK.

 - non-standard-dir-in-usr: This is a feature of the cross-compiling toolchain.  Again dealt with in that thread, and also following suit on the behaviour of other already shipping cross-compiling binutils packages.

The BuildRequires of just texinfo appears to be fine to me.  It builds in mock with no problems.

Regarding the licence:  The sources contain GPL v2+ and v3+.  I'm following suit on what the binutils package does, and labelling this as GPLv3+.  I assume this is correct.

Cheers,

Rob

Comment 7 Package Review 2020-07-10 00:45:54 UTC
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Comment 9 Package Review 2021-08-27 00:45:21 UTC
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