Carl V. Streeter writes ("Re: cross compilation,assembly"):
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> It would be neat to be able to generate a binary package for all
> processor targets of debian at once. That would get rid of the current
> lag in non-hardware-specific packages for eg. the debian-m68k port.It would be nice, but it can't be done. Our packages don't cross-compile - well, some do, but we don't require them to and can't do so because the upstream package may well not support it. Ian.

