Re: cross-compilers
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 05:57:16PM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
> I guess I'm concerned that we would end up with a package for just about
> every *-linux target from just about every platform that Debian supports
> (eg. (powerpc|i386|mips|mipsel|mips64|hppa|sparc|m68k|s390|...)-linux
> packages compiled on at least 5 archs...any of which may be used by less
> than 50 people total in the end). In the end, I'm wondering if it's worth
> the archive bloat to actually package that many cross-toolchains for a
> relatively handful of users. It may be better to have an unofficial
> resting place for such packages....
These should only need to be updated very rarely... newer is not better.
Maybe that would counterbalance the absolute space requirement?
Also, isn't it a bit difficult to get some of these targets with enough
RAM to natively build the cross-toolchain? Or are you going Canadian cross?
Cheers,
Bill
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