> Also, cross-compilers are so f'ing wonderful for targeting old or > embedded systems, nowadays too. NetBSD's ability to cross compile > binaries for completely alien systems is just awesome.
But it comes at a price. NetBSD/vax, for example, has trouble self-hosting, and nobody knows why, because it shows up only in native builds. Nobody knows whether there's a subtle bug in the cross-compiler generating a broken native compiler, or there's a subtle bug in the compiler that shows up only in native VAX builds, or what. (Or at least that's what I've gathered from following port-vax@.) If I were still following NetBSD I'd be taking a real VAX and trying to figure out when things went south, doing all the builds native. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
