On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:42:31AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Dear Debian 68k porters, > > I successfully build pari under aranym using distcc and gcc-cross > running on the host.
That's good, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to rely on this. gcc build systems have been known to break in regards to generating cross-compilers, so if we switch everything to cross-compiling now, then we're screwed the next time the build system breaks and the ABI changes incompatibly (as happened around gcc-4.0). Also, I'm hoping your crosscompiler is generated from the Debian source package, not from anything else; if it wasn't, we get a distribution that can't be reproduced by someone just looking at what's in Debian. That would be a bug. That being said, I don't think it's a bad idea to use this as a stopgap measure or so when we're falling back again. As we are now. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
