On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 22:52, brian.auld at adic.com wrote: > Out of all the feedback I received, only one person suggested developing on > a PowerMac based Linux box, thus eliminating the need for cross-compiling. I > have become more interested in this option as some people in our company > have noted that cross-compiling embedded linux presented problems on past > projects when it came to building certain 3rd party applications.
Compiling on a powerpc platform dose not automatically make things just work you may have to build a cross compiler anyway depending on what bugs in the target you have to work around. Some programs is simpler to build native for sure but on the few times I resorted to that I could build on the development card. It's nice to have more than one platform for other reasons like when things do not work you have something to compare against. -- Kenneth Johansson Ericsson AB Tel: +46 8 719 70 20 Tellusborgsv?gen 94 Fax: +46 8 719 29 45 126 25 Stockholm ken at switchboard.ericsson.se ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
