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Re: Cross-compilers.

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>
To: Clark Williams <williams redhat com>
Cc: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list redhat com>, fedora-extras-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Cross-compilers.
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:30:34 +0800

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 15:21 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
> We could generate x86, x86_64, and PPC hosted toolchains for
> x86, x86_64 and PPC and then be able to build say PPC packages from an
> x86_64 (the immediate benefactor would probably be the build system). 

Cross-compilation of packages is never going to work reliably. Too many
people make the mistake of using autocrap, and don't handle
cross-compilation at all well.

-- 
dwmw2

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- Re: Cross-compilers.
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