Re: userland packages

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:14:23AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:

> He is not telling the truth. :-)  See his very own MIPS-HOWTO,
> cross-compile section :
> 
> http://www.linux.sgi.com/mips-howto.html

So you probably never tried to crosscompile something with extensive
autoconf scripts like Gnome.  It's a major pain to get that done right.
Running the compiler is the trivial part of build some package ...

> Also, you can take a look of the rpm spec files for the toolchains I put
> on ftp.mvista.com/pub/Area51/mips_le/.  So far all my usrland stuff are
> cross-compiled - I don't have the luxury of a desktop MIPS with 1.6GB
> RAM.

I bet your heating makes less noise ...

  Ralf