On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 08:15:35AM -0500, Phoebus R. Dokos wrote:

> > > P.S. We also have one "tug-of-war" going on with them... I am trying to
> > > convince them to compile for m68k (Q40) Linux :-)
> >
> >I can compile it if I get the sources.
> 
> Oh I know, but it's closed software and that is very very sad indeed.... 
> I'm working on it though....
> 
> BTW Richard, does gcc compile for different targets? (eg on x86 linux to 
> m68k linux) 

it works, however that doesn't mean that everything can be crosscompiled.
Some packages do autoconf tests that require native build, or lot of work
to get it right.. before autoconf was invented pretty much everything could
be xcompiled.

Bye
Richard

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