> > Maybe I should just punt and get a TS-7260 with SD
> > card and Debian instead? Cross compiling hassles are
> > taking a toll :)
>
> Generally speaking, targets are not the best platform to build
> code. Getting a X-Dev toolchain working is probably a better
> long-term solution. If you are having trouble with the provided
> toolchain, try rolling your own with crosstool, or looking into
> alternative toolchains. e.g., I believe the ELDK from Denx supports
> ARM today.
Theoretically and in a perfect world, yes-- but in practice I'd
generally disagree. Many open source project's included build
machinery cannot always be relied upon to be "cross-compile"
friendly. Apache is a token case. I generally tell customers to use
the Linux community's cross-gcc tools only if you know what you're
doing or you're starting a large code-base from scratch.
All too often the CPU time saved by cross-compiling on a fast x86 host
doesn't make up for the amount of engineer time it takes to fix
build systems/hunt down crosstool updates, etc so that cross-compiling
works in the first place. Sure, 200Mhz is slow, but self-hosted
compiling on Debian/ARM is much less "surprising" IMHO. Most of the
time I find a precompiled Debian package thats 99% of what I need and
custom compiling the source to get the remaining 1% usually isn't
worth the hassle.
//Jesse Off
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