> JH> An OS problem and a build environment (cross-compilation, yuk)
> JH> problem. I once managed to compile miniperl (5.005) for Chorus.
> JH> I'm about to unearth the cross-compilation changes I had to make to
> JH> get that working. (You thought Configure was hairy enough already?
> JH> Think again: the test executables have transfered to and run on the
I forgot: also the input files need to transferred to the target.
> but you seem to agree that porting to most embedded type systems is more
> of an OS (and testing!) issue than compilation. if other complex enough
I think there are true limits imposed by the more limited CPUs like
address space. I think there might be nasty assumptions one easily
makes that work only on 32-bit or more address spaces.
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