Hamish Moffatt wrote: > It occurred to > me that since most of the Debian packages > are also available for m68k and also > Sparc and Alpha now, the develops are probably > using cross-compilation, rather than actually > owning all these machines.
Nope. What happens is most (single-cpu) developers upload the source and binaries for one architecture. Then helpful and nice developers who own other machines upload binaries for their cpu, built from the source. > Is there a package > for eg the m68k cross compiler? I couldn't > find one with the package search on www.debian.org. I don't think so. At least, not one I built. > Thinking about it, it would seem possible > to have a gcc-core package which would > include the gcc binary itself for [snip] There really isn't a "core" gcc package, just the native version. gcc cross compilers wouldn't need any other gcc packages to be useful. > Is this plausible and/or useful? Plausible. Would anybody else consider this useful? --Galen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
