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Re: PROPOSAL: Policy for obsoleting targets
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 04:54:54PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 07:51:15PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > On May 16, 2003, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The problem with cross build is that there is really no generic
> > > "build a cross compiler" procedure.
> >
> > Excellent point.
> >
> > > No one person is skilled in all those types of cross builds. I have
> > > done about 4 of them in the past year. If GCC is to have good cross
> > > building instructions, then my proposal would be to divide the
> > > instructions into categories based upon the above patterns and any
> > > others that people can identify.
> >
> > Agreed on all counts. You seem to have a great starting point.
>
> So, suppose we start a web page with Joel's categories as headings, and
> then let people fill in sections for instructions in places where they
> know the answer? We'll wind up with missing sections, but at least we'll
> have something to point people to.
This sounds like an extremely good idea. (I may regret this but) I'll
volunteer to draft instructions for Linux targets based on the way we
do it here. Probably other people will have other methods.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer