On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 13:19, Robert Dewar wrote: > > > > Also don't forget us embedded people that are *desperately* trying to > > do native compilations using an NFSroot with limited main memory and > > don't have a disk in the hardware design to swap to. > > Why would you work in such a crippled environment? >
One reason is that many people write open-source packages that can't be cross compiled (there are far too many autoconf scripts around that try to build executable test programs). Robert, please stop trying to shoot the messenger. The problems are real, and users often cannot 'fix' these problems themselves. Just like they can't 'fix' the compiler bloat themselves. R.
