On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 04:17:07PM +0000, Eduardo Pérez Ureta wrote: > Could anybody explain me why you can't compile all architectures in one PC ?
Because, except for the simplest cases, cross-compilation is not feasible. In a few corner cases it is actually impossible, but for the majority of cases it is simply unfeasible. For example, to compile a package with Build-Depends, you would have to install versions of all of the depended-upon packages /for the target architecture/. This would require setting up separate /usr trees for the other architectures. Sometimes building requires running particular special purpose programs (gtk-config springs to mind); you'd need to have special versions of those available. > > Could be the reason you can not test the packages ? That's another reason ;) Jules
