From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:55:26 -0800 Received: from sgi.SGI.COM ([192.48.153.1]:51718 "EHLO sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:55:09 -0800 Received: from dhcp-163-154-5-240.engr.sgi.com ([163.154.5.240]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id SAA02500 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:55:08 -0800 (PST) mail_from (ralf@oss.sgi.com) Received: (ralf@lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de) by bacchus.dhis.org id ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 10:50:18 -0800 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 10:50:18 -0800 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Florian Lohoff , Pete Popov , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Cross compiling RPMs Message-ID: <20010127105018.D867@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20010126212341.A26384@paradigm.rfc822.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:42:34AM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:42:34AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > I definitly go for native builds - Once you have a working stable > > base you can set up debian autobuilders which will do nearly > > everything for you except signing and uploading the package into > > the main repository. > > Yep, native builds are more likely to get correct as that's what most > developers out there check (there are actually developers who never heard > of something like a cross-compilation, sigh...). But not everyone can > afford a week to build glibc or X11... Sounds like DECstation results. Building all the Redhat 7.0 packages which are on oss + some others which could build for MIPS but don't for some reason to the point where the build fails takes approx 40h on an Origin 200 with 2 180MHz R10000 processors and 1.5gb RAM. I recently was told there is some m68k VME system out there which needs approx. 3 days to rebuild it's kernel. Ralf