David Woodhouse wrote: > Yeah, I was building Red Hat Linux packages for sh3 many years ago, > using tricks like that. But there was always _something_ else going > wrong, however much you hacked around it. And a lot of it would only > turn up at runtime, not build time. I would never consider shipping a > product with a large number of userspace packages cross-compiled.
I take it on a case-by-case basis. But yea, validation is definitely a pain. Especially with all the silent failures (i.e. getting endianness wrong) that the configure script creates for you. > For minimal file systems with a select handful of tools which can be > tested exhaustively, it's not so bad. But for any 'full-featured' > userspace, I think cross-compilation is completely insane. We both agree that it'll *drive* you insane, at least. And I'm 90% with you on the rest. :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
