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native compiling is indeed a much, much easier option when available. What we ended up doing here was just using a distribution: download Debian's debootstrap, install a Debian, configure the network, and go: apt-get install gcc And voilà, you have a working native development system.
I'm planning on doing something similar, but will have to compile all the packages myself (there aren't any debian packages prebuilt for ppc405 :-() I'll probably cross-build the packages, but let users who hate cross-compiling do all their compiling natively (sometimes it's just easier to give people what they ask for instead of educating them...)
This also has its problems: we normally run busybox/uClibc, and then chroot in that Debian. Ideally, we'd want a uClibc-based Debian... but I don't think that exists. Maybe that's where "compile-everything" distributions like Gentoo would come in handy, but we haven't had time to look into that yet.
I looked into this recently. Gentoo isn't too cross-compile friendly, so it's a bit hard to bootstrap on strange processors. lnx-bbc and Rock Linux might be helpful here, they seem to be a bit simpler and cross-compile friendlier, but I saw problems with each of them. I'm interested in hearing what others who go this route find. - Dan
-- Dan Kegel http://www.kegel.com http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045
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