Re: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal
Quoting Peter 'p2' De Schrijver <p2@mind.be>:
> Most packages are not tested automatically at all.
Unfortunately not.
> Most cross compiled software also runs 24/7. I have yet to see problems
> produced by cross compiling the code.
...
> I don't think the risk is real considering the amount of cross compiled
> software already running in the world.
Yes. In "my" company we rely heavily on cross-compilation, because
our target environment is not (meant to be) self-hosting. There is
absolutely no problem in terms of stability, that is related to the
cross-compilation. Sometimes we ran into gcc bugs, but those were
not only in the cross cc.
Cheers, WB
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