On Friday 17 August 2007 23:56:30 Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > "Stephen M. Kenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > However, the question > > remains, why is the problem still there to be circumvented? Is there > > some secret opposition to easy use of these tools, is there some law > > of nature that prevents them from building, is there some good > > technical reason that is hard to implement, or has it just not been a > > big enough pain for anyone to beat it into submission? > > The central problem is that gcc, binutils, glibc, and the kernel are > all separate projects which are distributed and maintained separately > by different people. Thus there are mismatches and confusions and > difficulties which result from the different release cycles and > different agendas. > > Thus there is a place in the ecosystem for people to write the scripts > needed to smooth over those differences. And indeed that ecosystem is > filled by tools like crosstool and buildtool.
Or the T2 SDE (http://www.t2-project.org). > This is certainly not ideal. But the organizational differences make > it quite difficult to fix in any other way. > > Ian -- René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name
