On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > 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. It's mostly RAM-dependent. A machine with about 4 MB of memory will suck for compilation regardless of the CPU type. If you have a decent native system, why to bother with cross-compiling? -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
