On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:04:31PM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > I'm removing the cross-compiler patches to debian/rules, etc. as > of the upcoming 2.11.90.0.5-1. Until we get a better method for compiling > these, I'd rather not have the packages available. As it stands, it takes > several hours to build binutils and all of the cross- packages on my fast > Alpha and I don't even want to know how long on m68k (up to a day, IIRC).
Do you mean that you are removing the patches, or disabling them? I rather like the gcc-2.95 method of being native-only by default, but you can edit a few things and build cross-compilers yourself. Given how easy it is to build a debian package, I don't see much need for the maintainer to build N cross-compiling packages -- it also means that you're only likely to build the popular cross binutils, not, e.g, powerpc->i386. dave...
