On 22/05/2008, Neil Williams wrote: > > I think csound is unlikely to be cross-built. Sound synthesis is a > > pretty cpu-intensive task. > > :-) don't think that cross-building is only for low resource units.
And please don't second-guess people in general. Think of those using clusters, e.g. > I suppose csound may also require a lot of RAM. kdepim's build process comes to mind. > It is still possible that an arch could be sufficiently powerful to > *run* csound but not capable of building gcc for itself. (I would be > surprised if running csound is quite as much workload as compiling > gcc.) People might also want to cross-build using a single huge machine acting as build-server, so that there's a single system to maintain, rather than having to maintain (and own?) a machine for each arch. Mraw, KiBi.
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