Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > It is not a little slow, but painfully slow (remember: the compiler runs > in an emulated environment, where each CPU instruction issued by the > compiler is translated into a CPU instruction that the host CPU > understands, and the result is somehow translated back). Yes, I've noticed that the ./configure step is especially painful, because of all of the little test programs that it compiles. Running ./configure for a small project took the good part of half an hour. > If you really want to do this, it might be better (but surely not > easier, this is rather Voodoo) to port makepkg to using a cross-compiler > toolchain. Sounds risky, as well. At some point, it'll become worthwhile to simply upgrade my platform. -- Chris
