From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Jan 20 16: 4:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from bsd4us.org (cn386092-a.newcas1.de.home.com [24.40.46.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CAC315295 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:04:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lgriffin@BSD4US.ORG) Received: from localhost (lgriffin@localhost) by bsd4us.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05068 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:59:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:59:50 -0500 (EST) From: Lyndon Griffin To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Curious (cross-compiler) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org My thinking may be *really* screwy here, and - if so - I hope somebody will step forward to correct me. What is the purpose of building a cross-compiler if we have a running OS on the target platform? Wouldn't it be simpler to just build everything on the target platform using the existing OS? <:) Lyndon Griffin http://www.bsd4us.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message