build status for cross builds?

[mike stump]

> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:31:59 -0500 (EST)
> From: Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>
> To: janis187@us.ibm.com

> I"m not sure how meaningful it is to attempt to keep track of
> cross-build successes.  Right now there is no useable documentation
> of how to do cross-builds.  There are fragmentary and
> years-out-of-date pieces of folklore; combined with large amounts of
> effort and luck those may sometimes produce working cross-builds.

> It really would be helpful to have real cross-build documentation
> and mechanisms.  I have been hoping to contribute, but my level of
> success is still low enough that I'm not ready to do so yet.

?

It really is rather easy to do cross builds, and even canadian cross
builds, and one only needs to know around 5 configure options and all
of them are documented and fairly trivial.