+++ Martin-?ric Racine [03-11-20 13:36 +0200]: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Graham Wilson wrote: > Why can't everything just be cross-compiled on a _really_ fast 64-bit host > belonging to the Debian project?
Because it won't work. Only a relativly small (but admittedly increasing) subset of packages will cross-compile properly. Loads and loads of stuff will simply fail to build if cross-compiled. It could, in theory, all be fixed but that an epic amount of tricky work - native building is just much more reliable. We have that and shouldn't throw it away even if it is a bit slow sometimes. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/
