I can only try to answer one. Other please correct me. On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:43:24AM -0700, James Gibson wrote: > 2) Is it worthwhile to try and build a native compiler, or is the > cross-compiler adequate in most cases?
You need a compiler environment for some more complex packages, because configure (or the makefiles) need to run a program on the machine, either to find something out about the installed libraries/processor (size of types for example) or to generate some files. Some of these problems can be manually circumvented, but not all. I'm currently working on bootstrapping a native compiler, you are invited to join my efforts (currently, there is this nasty _IO_std*_ problems that result from different glibc versions or so...) Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
