On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:46:08AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 04:27:22PM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, David N. Welton wrote: > > > > > Any plans to create an i386 to powerpc gcc crosscompiler package? I > > > think we'd increase our popularity amongst the embedded folks who use > > > PPC. > > > > I was actually thinking about creating one myself, but I cannot promise > > when that will be, it might be tomorrow or in one month. To be frank, I > > may need this for my work (though not embedded-oriented), but things are > > a bit vague so far. Still, I too think it would be nice to have and I > > actually think of having a whole series of cross-compilers from and to > > each and every debian platform available. (section: cross-compilers?) > > Ew. > > I really dislike having these available as packages; they are easy to > build, very limited target audience, and very large/complex. Having to > maintain a separate source tree for gcc for each target would be a > nightmare; building them out of the gcc package would probably push its > build time up to something truly obscene.
At one time I was comtemplating adding a target to gcc's build so that it could create a cross compiler package. Wouldn't be done by default, or put into the archive, but would be there as a starting point for people who wanted to create a cross compiler package (just set the target arch, and "debian/rules binary-x-compiler", or some such). Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
