Got my Cubox

[Kevin Cozens]

On 12-06-22 01:42 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> No thanks.  Cross compiling is a horrible idea for most open source
> projects because autoconf is too damn popular.  Now qemu + multiarch is
> possibly going to change that, but until it is fully ready I will stick
> with native compiles.

It will depend on what you need/want to compile, the build environment, and 
what other packages may be required as dependencies. I cross compiled 
ghostscript for ARM in order to be able to print to a printer.

> Besides if you have an 800MHz or 1GHz machines with 1GB ram, compiling
> really isn't a big deal.

No, not as long as you have the RAM/SD Card/HD space to hold all the 
compiler tools and link libraries.


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