On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:21:45AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:11:01PM +0200, Artur Grabowski wrote: > > > > Seriously. You really don't see the correlation between using something > > and finding bugs? What planet are you from? > > > > Quite a strong correlation actually Art. Since you appear a bit > confused allow me to spell it out for you.
yeah I am sure art needs this stuff spelled out to him. He has never demonstrated his ability in this arena before. Oh wait, yes he did; in fact often and publicly. > > 1) At no point in time did I advocate no testing of the output > binaries. Regardless of whether those binaries are produced via a > native build or a cross build. Testing the binaries is a _good_ thing > and should be done. The process of building the binaries really does > not exercise much of the system. You are *so* wrong. make build is an outstanding way to stress a system. Again you assertions demonstrate your skill level. > > 2) I am not sure where the expectation that cross-built binaries will > be chock full of bugs that are not there in a native build comes > from. Even if you assume that this is correct then those bugs should > just be treated like any other tool chain bug and fixed. Why? no one in OpenBSD gives a crap. Haven't you read the previous postings? > > Cross-building of BSD can be done, even foreign platform hosting of > the build can be done. If the developers of OpenBSD choose not to do > it, for what ever reasons they have, they are the ones that will > suffer most from that decision - if they choose to live with that then > that is plenty fine by me... I just find it sort of quaint. Quaint? So having a working platform is "quaint". You deserve Linux. > > -- > Brett Lymn
