Re: cross compile packages

[Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:48:51PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> I recently started playing with mingw32 - Minimalist GNU win32 (cross)
> compiler.  This allows me to write a GTK frontend to go along with a
> console backend for telescope control, and compile an .exe for windows
> and a ELF for linux very easily (both from linux).
> 
> I started thinking about cross compiling in general, and I wonder why
> Debian doesn't have cross compile packages (I imagine its a disk space
> issue?)

It does, that's toolchain-source.

Cross-compilers do not really work in practice. They're only useful
for bootstrapping.

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