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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
- From: Peter Barada <peter at the-baradas dot com>
- To: dank at kegel dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:01:10 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
- References: <427024B7.1040107@kegel.com>
>>> The alternative of course is to do only crossbuilds. Is it reasonable
>>> to say that, for platforms where a bootstrap is no longer feasible, a
>>> successful crossbuild is an acceptable test procedure to use instead?
>>>
>> Sure, and get flamed and trounced by Uli on glibc when you talk
>> about problems with crossbuilding.
>
>He'll flame you anyway for talking about platforms
>that are no longer relevant to the desktop.
>(Well, maybe he wouldn't. See http://lwn.net/Articles/19297 )
>
>A successful crossbuild is certainly the minimum concievable standard.
>Perhaps one should also require bootstrapping the C compiler alone;
>that would provide at least some sanity-checking.
Unfortunately for some of the embedded targets(like the ColdFire V4e
work I'm doing), a bootstrap is impossible due to limited memory and
no usable mass-storage device on the hardware I have available, so
hopefully a successful crossbuild will suffice.
--
Peter Barada
peter@the-baradas.com