On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote: > We had this discussion before and i know the positions tend to be > very different. Most of todays autoconfiged software is difficult to > cross-compile. Everything in the debian distribution is compiled natively > and this will stay this way. The debian gcc/binutils source packages > contained the hooks for cross-binutils and cross-gcc but they have been > disabled as the number of users is VERY low and the compile times for 10+ > binutils are very long for slow archs like mips/mipsel/m68k etc.
Ah, but if you have working cross-build support, you can build all of the mips->xx cross-compiler packages using an i386->mips cross-compiler... <g,d,r> Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
