On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 15:04, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > 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. Right. > Cross-compilers do not really work in practice. They're only useful > for bootstrapping. That's completely wrong. Tell that to all the developers that compile for embedded systems. They cannot compile natively, because the target architecture is not fast enough, lacks space or other ressources (in most cases all of them). 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). Greetings, Oliver
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