Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > That is actually a current plan - to crossbuild the port on Solaris x86.
> > > > And the cross toolchain is built with that decision in mind.
> > > > (http://opensolaris.org/os/community/power_pc/ppc_tools/)
> > >
> > > A lot of software (all that uses autoconf) cannot be compiled on a
> > > different
> > > CPU without manually editing all autoconf results which may take a long
> > > time.
> >
> > Notice also that doing native compilation is a good way to test the
> > toolchain
> > and underlying OS. I personally recomend it :) Also, distcc and ccache :)
>
> I personally prefer this way too, unless the OS isn't selfhosted yet :)
OpenSolaris is not yet selfhostet even on x86, but I am getting closer to that
goal. If I do not count javac related problem (BTW: how do we get javac for
PPC?), there are less then 1000 problems left over ;-)
J?rg
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