Building cross-compilers with sibling package trees

[Joe Buck]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:49:52PM -0700, Doug Evans wrote:
> Building a cross compiler from scratch "just works" (as in all one
> has to do is "configure, make all install") if all of binutils, gcc,
> newlib, libgloss, libstdc++, etc. are siblings.
> [At least this use to "just work".]
> 
> The number of hoops one has to go through when this isn't the
> case can be painful, especially if one is doing active development
> on multiple packages (e.g. writing a new port from scratch).
> 
> Is there any interest in making this easier?

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