Cross-compilers.

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Aug 3 01:30:34 UTC 2006


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.

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dwmw2




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