Dave, Can Systems/C be used for kernel development? Or does Linux still have a number of "gcc dependancies" as I've read in the past? Or course, few of us actually cross compile the kernel itself.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas David Rivers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 10:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: so correct me if I am wrong > > > > > > My experience has been that cross-compiling is risky, at > best. While > > working to port SAPDB, one of the other people helping was doing > > cross-compiles, and getting different results than I was. > Setting up > > a cross-compile environment is apparently not easy to do > correctly, so > > I try to avoid it as much as possible. > > Cross-compiling is risky... but, it can be done. Earlier > versions of gcc had problems, but it's getting better (and, > of course <plug>Systems/C</plug> gets it right.) > > We'd be happy to discuss this with anyone who's interested; > feel free to contact me off-line. > > - Dave Rivers - > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: (919) 676-0847 > Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com > > > > > Mark Post > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 11:30 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: so correct me if I am wrong > > > > > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Post, Mark K wrote: > > > > > Since they do put out the SRPMs (source RPMs), you can download > > > those and build the binary for installation, but that can > be, ummm, > > > a chore, and it certainly chews up CPU time for packages of any > > > size. (I'm currently in > > the > > > process of re-building glibc 2.2.5, and it's going on 24 hours of > > > wall > > clock > > > time. Open Office took me about a _month_, on a much > bigger machine > > > that this one.) > > > > Why not put some cheepo intel with a faster CPU to the task? > > > > rpms should generally allow cross-platform building. I > admit I haven't > > tried that, But the time it would take you to set that up > (in addition > > to the compilation time of OOo) will still probably be less than a > > month. > > > > (Disclaimer: I have never tried this: nither rpm > cross-building, nor > > building the OOo beast ;-) ) > > > > -- > > Tzafrir Cohen > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir > > >
