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Subject: Re: Is it feasible to cross-build compat5x binary?
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On Sun, 2005-Oct-23 16:29:35 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
>We should no trust cross built libraries for this purpose at this time.
>We really don't know how identical the results will be to being natively
>built.

At some stage, we need to validate our cross-build chain with cmp(1).
We can probably leverage off the work that NetBSD has done in this
area.  This would significantly simplify the work involved in supporting
the various architectures.

-- 
Peter Jeremy