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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
Peter Barada <peter@the-baradas.com> writes:
> What's really sad is that for cross-compilation of the toolchain, we
> have to repeat a few steps (build gcc twice, build glibc twice)
> because glibc and gcc assume that a near-complete environment is
> available(such as gcc needing headers, and glibc needing -lgcc-eh), so
> even really fast machines(2.4Ghz P4) take an hour to do a cross-build
> from scratch.
This could be made substantially easier if libgcc moved to the top
level. You wanna help out with that?
zw