Re: Converting GCC to compilation with C++

[Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>]

On Jul 13, 2004, at 7:48 AM, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> > Why do you think users can't install binary distributions instead?
>
> That doesn't help with new architectures! This seems an obvious
> point, am I missing something?

A new architecture is missing gcc/g++, right?  So, my claim is that 
that is more of a disaster, than not being able to compile a cross 
compiler to a supported platform on that new system, and that crossing 
from another system is generally no more hard than bringing it up on 
the new system.

Of all the times you've ported gcc to a new platform, what percentage 
of the time would it have been harder to cross than to bring up on the 
target system?  What were some of the issues that made it hard?