> Would it serve to teach students of it how to build their own > version of GNU?
It would if they want to build a basic operating system with the kernel Linux(-libre) and if the programs they want to add can be built by cross-compilation. > Would it serve them to do it on another architecture? I think it could work for other architectures as well, as far as those architectures are supported by GCC, binutils, glibc (glibc-ports) and the kernel Linux(-libre). They would have to adapt the documentation though: change the values of $CROSS_TARGET, $MABI, $MARCH, ARCH=mips for Linux headers and Linux and modify options like --enable-64-bit-bfd if this is not appropriate. I have not tested those instructions for other architectures though. Christophe
