Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:11:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: marcel@scc.nl (Marcel Moolenaar) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cross compilation goals. Message-ID: <199911231911.MAA02934@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <38344691.BF54DAD@scc.nl> from "Marcel Moolenaar" at Nov 18, 99 07:33:53 pm
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> > Another issue is that the GCC/EGCS code "front ending" is not > > very well integrated; you end up with huge amounts of installed > > headers, even if you are cross-compiling the same OS on another > > platform. > > I'm not sure I understand your point. Do you mean that installing the > headers in the object-tree should be avoided if they are the same as the > ones installed on the host? No. Although that is a good point: The headers should be included from their location in the source tree, not from the host, and not from the object tree. > Or that different architectures can share the same set of headers? Different machine architectures running the same OS. > The first case probably takes as much time to detect as it takes to > installing the headers. And the space saved is probably not worth all > the trouble. It's faster to _not_ detect AND _not_ install the headers. > The second case is not possible, so I assume you don't actually ment > that :-) The second case is perfectly possible, and reasonable in fact. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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