> Let me ask a stupid question. With all of the ways to otherwise do a > cross compile, why a config option on MIPS? ARM*/SH*, which are at > least as likely to not be native-compiled, don't do that. Just > something I've always wondered, really. Probably because, unlike ARM and SH, the MIPS architecture began life as a workstation/server processor, and for a while there cross-compilation was the exception rather than the rule. Regards, Kevin K.