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To:     "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
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Subject: Re: Cross compiling RPMs 
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Date:   Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:12:04 -0800
From:   Mike McDonald <mikemac@mikemac.com>
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>Date:   Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:57:08 +0100 (MET)
>From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
>To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
>Subject: Re: Cross compiling RPMs

>   If you have a decent native
>system, why to bother with cross-compiling? 

  Because that's a huge IF! Most of the systems I deal with aren't
"decent" enough to support native compilation of the system. (The
systems of interest to me are embedded and handheld units.)

  Mike McDonald
  mikemac@mikemac.com