On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 08:21:18PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de> writes: > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:58:50PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <p2@mind.be> writes: > > > > A much faster solution would be to use distcc or scratchbox for > > > > crosscompiling. > > > Debian packages cannot be reliably built with a cross-compiler, > > > because they very frequently need to execute the compiled binaries as > > > well as just compile them. > > I suppose the idea is to use distcc and a crosscompiler - that way > > the .c files are compiled to .o on a fast architecture with a > > crosscompiler, but the configure scripts, linker and so on run natively. > Right, but upstream makefiles don't work this way, and often > interleave compilation and execution of native code. > Consider a program that has its own source-code-building widget, which > it needs to compile and run to generate more code to compile. That'll work. _All_ distcc sends to the crosscompiler is preprocessed c code to be compiled into object code. So the source-code building widget is compiled remotely, run locally, and the results are sent to compile remotely. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean" This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. -----------------------------------------------------------
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