On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:03:37 +0100
Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 21.03.2011 11:25, Neil Williams wrote:
> > The people who are most likely to be doing this now are Linaro.
> > Emdebian Crush stalled after Lenny (and used ARM not armel), so the
> > version of gcc-4.2 in Lenny should still build with the typical
> > "dpkg-buildpackage -aarm". Later versions of gcc probably have other
> > fixes which would cause the reverse cross build to fail, not due to the
> > failure of the original patches but due to changes in gcc itself.
> 
> the gcc-4.4 packaging is able to build a reverse cross.  I didn't check 
> gcc-4.5
> and gcc-4.6.
> 
>   Matthias

Oops, sorry Matthias - that was meant to be "later versions of gcc
*might* have other (internal) changes which could cause..." I didn't
mean to infer that I'd tried and failed a reverse cross with newer
versions, I haven't had time to do that test. Thanks for the info on
gcc-4.4.

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