On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > 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.
It's mostly RAM-dependent. A machine with about 4 MB of memory will suck
for compilation regardless of the CPU type. If you have a decent native
system, why to bother with cross-compiling?
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