On Thursday, Nov 30, 2006, Neil Williams writes: > >OK, this is a radical thought - one of those light bulb moments and the >light may actually be from an oncoming train but - why are we >cross-compiling binaries that are already available as native binaries?
Because 'native' isn't always 'native'. For instance, I once worked on a mips chip that was little endian and had no FPU, so building for it meant using the '--no-fpu' flag. Simiarly Debian's ARM binaries are one endian (I forget which) but I know other-endian ARM cpus exist. I don't expect the main debian project to ever handle all these options. --pj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
