On 10/29/05, Joerg Schilling <schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > 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 :)
> >
> > I personally prefer this way too, unless the OS isn't selfhosted yet :)
>
> OpenSolaris is not yet selfhostet even on x86, but I am getting closer to that
> goal. If I do not count javac related problem (BTW: how do we get javac for
> PPC?), there are less then 1000 problems left over ;-)
I do not even want to think about javac and where we will find it. We will
deal with it when it'll become a showstopper, not sooner. And then I would
try GCC - AFAIR it comes with Java compiler support. [I have no idea how
good or bad the Java support in GCC is - as I said - we need to solve
each problem in its time - no sooner]
Regards,
Cyril
>
>
> J?rg
>
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