* Daniel P. Berrangé:

> Yes, I wouldn't bother thinking about cross compilation using Fedora,
> except for mingw. For Linux cross compilation it is easier to use
> Debian in a container from your Fedora host.
>
> You can install library / devel packages from any Debian architecture
> no matter what the native arch this. This gives ability to get coverage
> of pretty much every architecture that still matters, and several that
> don't. Especially useful is that you can get big-endian build coverage.
> It isn't worth special casing the i686 arch to use Fedora if you also
> case about other archs IMHO.

I agree that the Debian approach is very nice: it reuses outputs from
native builds for cross-compilation.  That side-steps a lot of the
issues inherent to cross-compilation.

Thanks,
Florian
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