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From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tom
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:28:47
Message-Id: 3A704DCE.126D3B14@gottinger.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tom by Bill Anderson
1 Bill Anderson wrote:
2
3 > Bill Anderson wrote:
4 > ...yes responding to my own post ...
5 >
6 > >>
7 > >>
8 > >> Please send me you ppc, alpha, i64, mips, sparc machines and I will do
9 > >> the ports. :-)
10 > >>
11 > >
12 > >
13 > > How about SSH access to an Alpha? Good enough? ;^)=
14 > >
15 >
16 > Actually, upon sonideration, you could set up gcc as a cross-compiler to
17 > build the packages for an alpha/sparc/etc.
18
19 I don't think you can build all packages with a cross compiler, but it
20 should
21 be possible to build the sys-build stuff with it.
22 Be warned building such a croo-compile enviroment is definately not an easy
23 thing.
24
25 ~achim
26
27 > The those of us with acess to
28 > them can try them out. My alpha is a bit short on RAM, and as such takes
29 > along time to build things :(.
30 >
31 > I may try to set up gcc as a cross-compiler at work (mmmm 6-way XEON 700
32 > ...) sometime next month, as I want to build my alpha system from the
33 > ground up (it is currently in an odd state ...).
34 >
35 > Just random thoughts ...
36 > Bill
37 >
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