On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:05:45AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hmm.. is anyone cross-compiling PowerPC OpenSolaris on x86 Solaris 10? > > > > That is actually a current plan - to crossbuild the port on Solaris x86. > > And the cross toolchain is built with that decision in mind. > > (http://opensolaris.org/os/community/power_pc/ppc_tools/) > > A lot of software (all that uses autoconf) cannot be compiled on a different > CPU without manually editing all autoconf results which may take a long time.
Notice also that doing native compilation is a good way to test the toolchain and underlying OS. I personally recomend it :) Also, distcc and ccache :) Friendly, Sven Luther
