Aboriginal Linux's motto is "we cross compile so you don't have to".
Download prebuilt binary system images that boot under qemu, with native toolchains so you can compile your own software, from: http://landley.net/aboriginal/downloads/binaries The supported target list in this release is: armv4l (oabi), armv4tl (eabi), armv5l, armv6l, mips, mipsel, mips64, sh4, i486, i586, i686, powerpc, powerpc-440fp, sparc, and x86_64. (Also armv4eb and m68k but qemu won't run those yet.) Packages those system images are built from: linux-2.6.39, gcc-4.2.1, binutils-2.17, make-3.81, busybox-1.18.3, uClibc-0.9.31, bash-2.05b, distcc-3.1. Each of these system images includes a binary kernel and root filesystem image, which the included "run-emulator.sh" script will boot to a shell prompt under QEMU. (The dev-environment.sh and native-build.sh scripts are wrappers around run-emulator.sh that allocate more resources for the emulator, to provide a better development environment.) In the "extras" directory you can find statically linked dropbear and strace binaries built natively under these system images, along with static busybox binaries for each target (which were cross compiled). For more information, see http;//landley.net/aboriginal Aboriginal Linux: "We cross compile so you don't have to." Rob
