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Re: experimental buildd



Oliver Kurth wrote:
[snip]
> > Not everyone can do that. On a SGI Indy with R5000-150PC a build of
> > XFree86 needs about 2 Days, but X is useful on even the slowest Indy.
> 
> Can I upload a cross compiled package (for experimental, I know I should
> not do that for the other archives)? I have a cross compiler here set up
> for powerpc, on an i386.

Generally not, due to e.g. endianness issues in non-executable binary
files. You would have to know the package very well to avoid all the
promlems which usually crop up for cross-compiling.


Thiemo

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