On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:42:34AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > I definitly go for native builds - Once you have a working stable > > base you can set up debian autobuilders which will do nearly > > everything for you except signing and uploading the package into > > the main repository. > > Yep, native builds are more likely to get correct as that's what most > developers out there check (there are actually developers who never heard > of something like a cross-compilation, sigh...). But not everyone can > afford a week to build glibc or X11... Sounds like DECstation results. Building all the Redhat 7.0 packages which are on oss + some others which could build for MIPS but don't for some reason to the point where the build fails takes approx 40h on an Origin 200 with 2 180MHz R10000 processors and 1.5gb RAM. I recently was told there is some m68k VME system out there which needs approx. 3 days to rebuild it's kernel. Ralf
