> I wouldn't say that. Tedious yes, difficult no. Well... Ask that to all the people I know who tried to do it :) it keeps breaking. Every new glibc CVS checkout breaks the build in a different way from experience.
> Besides, the debian x86_64 folks build bi-arch already. Just grab their > build scripts. If they work at all :) Anyway, whatever the debate is here, the first step is to build a biarch compiler with the appropriate libcs. Wether it defaults to 32 or 64 bits is probably a detail at this point. Once we have that and thus the ability to build ppc64 kernels, we have already a working solution _now_ for people who want to run debian, for example, on js20. Once that's done, we can eventually focus on a full 64 bits rebuild of all package with a gcc configured to default to 64 bits. Ben.
