On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 15:56, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Oliver Kurth wrote: > [snip] > > I myself cross compile every day for for work, for ppc on i386. > > > > I also built quite a few ppc debs using cross compilers. The only thing > > that often hinders cross compiling is carelessness by maintainers in > > configure scripts - often fixing this is trivial (but patches are often > > ignored). > > It needs some more care. You may run in e.g. endianness problems if the > compile produces non-object binaries of some sort. I have heard this argument before. Apart from the fact that I do not know what such a 'non-object binary' may be, again, it would be a configuration issue, and probably trivial to solve. I do not want to propose that we use fast architectures to build official packages for slow architectures, as it seems that's a solution for a non-existant problem. I just wanted to note that it is possible to build debian packages using cross compilers. Kudos to the maintainers of toolchain-source and dpkg-cross. Thanks. Greetings, Oliver
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