Re: GCC cross-compilation

1997-06-24 Thread Galen Hazelwood
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Jun 22, Galen Hazelwood wrote Hamish Moffatt wrote: Nope. What happens is most (single-cpu) developers upload the source and binaries for one architecture. Then helpful and nice developers who own other machines upload binaries for their cpu, built from the

Re: GCC cross-compilation

1997-06-24 Thread Mark Eichin
Hmm. While there are *particular* problems doing 32-64 bit cross compilation, doing any 32-32 compilation is probably *quite* solid. (In particular, compilers targeting the 68k are probably *better* than the x86 native compiler -- because we've [we==Cygnus] actually had a lot of paying 68k

RE: GCC cross-compilation

1997-06-24 Thread Michael Meskes
-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: GCC cross-compilation Michael Meskes wrote: Does this mean I could upload all architecture version for my packages? If so yes, I think it's useful. Michael Well, I personally distrust cross-compilers...at least gcc cross compilers. I know

Re: GCC cross-compilation

1997-06-24 Thread Roman Hodek
Well, I personally distrust cross-compilers...at least gcc cross compilers. I know that at least one crossover (i386-alpha) has been known to produce broken binaries at one time, In that case, 32/64 bit stuff has been the cause... Since you can't actually test the cross-compiled programs

Re: GCC cross-compilation

1997-06-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 24, 1997 at 10:55:09AM +0200, Roman Hodek wrote: I use cross-compiling most of the time for m68k, just because the Intel machines are much faster... But I test the resulting packages on the 68k machine :-) In that case, I think there's nothing to say against cross-compiling...

Re: GCC cross-compilation

1997-06-24 Thread Galen Hazelwood
Mark Eichin wrote: Hmm. While there are *particular* problems doing 32-64 bit cross compilation, doing any 32-32 compilation is probably *quite* solid. (In particular, compilers targeting the 68k are probably *better* than the x86 native compiler -- because we've [we==Cygnus] actually had a

RE: GCC cross-compilation

1997-06-23 Thread Michael Meskes
Empfängers ist unbekannt. Subject: Re: GCC cross-compilation Hamish Moffatt wrote: It occurred to me that since most of the Debian packages are also available for m68k and also Sparc and Alpha now, the develops are probably using cross-compilation, rather

Re: GCC cross-compilation

1997-06-23 Thread Roman Hodek
Does this mean I could upload all architecture version for my packages? If so yes, I think it's useful. But if you do that, you haven't tested whether your package is really running on another architecture... Roman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: GCC cross-compilation

1997-06-23 Thread Galen Hazelwood
Michael Meskes wrote: Does this mean I could upload all architecture version for my packages? If so yes, I think it's useful. Michael Well, I personally distrust cross-compilers...at least gcc cross compilers. I know that at least one crossover (i386-alpha) has been known to produce

Re: GCC cross-compilation

1997-06-22 Thread Galen Hazelwood
Hamish Moffatt wrote: It occurred to me that since most of the Debian packages are also available for m68k and also Sparc and Alpha now, the develops are probably using cross-compilation, rather than actually owning all these machines. Nope. What happens