On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 17:24, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > 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. Huh? I never had those problems. But I can check if the package works on a ppc box. I cannot use that for compiling because it is too slow, but testing should be fine. Do you have an example for a non-exec binary file, in which you would expect problems? Greetings, Oliver
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