cross-compiling alternatives (was Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)...)

[Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>]

Rob Landley wrote:
> However, having one or more full-time engineers devoted to debugging 
> cross-compile issues is quite a high price to pay too.  Moore's law really 
> doesn't help that one.
> 
> I'm not saying either solution is perfect, I'm just saying the "build under 
> emulation" approach is a viable alternative that gets more attractive as time 
> passes, both because of ongoing development on emulators and because of 
> Moore's law on the hardware.

I agree with much that you have said, Rob, and I understand the argument
for getting the most gain from the least resources, but I have a philosophical
problem with working around the cross-compilation problems instead of fixing
them in the upstream packages (or in the autoconf system itself).

Once someone fixes the cross-compilation issues for a package, they usually
stay fixed, if the fixes are mainlined.
 -- Tim


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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
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