Luca Olivetti wrote:
En/na Michael Schnell ha escrit:
Do you think it's really essential to have the compiler run on the
target ? Cross-compiling should be much easier to do and a lot easier
to work with for the users. (Is anybody really supposed to write
programs on his PDA ? )
Well, my arm machine (a buffalo linkstation pro) is sold as a network
drive, has 128MBytes, it comes from the factory with a vendor provided
stripped-down linux, and it has been hacked to run full-fledged
debian, so it's not exactly a pda (in fact it's my personal
mail/web/jabber/nfs/and various other things server).
Cross-compiling is too much of a hassle for me, since I'd have to
reproduce the library environment of the lspro on the host machine,
and I should also carefully study the documentation on cross-compiling
;-)
OK this indeed might bean advantage from time to time. A friend of mine
installed a MySQL server on a similar machine by just running the MySQL
make script at the target itself. So he did not need to bother with
cross compiling.
-Michael
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