> > As MIPS/Linux becomes more an embedded platform
> > and less an SGI/DEC legacy platform, people are in
> > general not going to put up with being forced to buy
> > old Indys to do their target application work!
>
> In not so far future their will be an complete distribution for both
> endianesses available (and even kept up to date) containing everything
> you need. Debian even now has cross-binutils available for mipsel and
> just a couple of mails would be required to come with cross-binutils for
> mips too. Compiling a cross-compiler from the debian gcc source package
> is described somewhere (Just a matter of a single line imho)
>
> Cross-compilation is IMHO so broken when it comes to userspace
> than noone really thinking of having something reusable would
> consider this. It all ends beeing a really ugly hack.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean here. That no one would
consider using your Debian cross environment? That no one
would consider doing cross-development? What part of it
seems to you to be a show-stopper?
Kevin K.
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