Is it feasible to cross-build compat5x binary?

Martin Cracauer cracauer at cons.org
Mon Oct 24 03:46:17 PDT 2005


Peter Jeremy wrote on Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:08:11PM +1000: 
> On Sun, 2005-Oct-23 16:29:35 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> >We should no trust cross built libraries for this purpose at this time.
> >We really don't know how identical the results will be to being natively
> >built.
> 
> At some stage, we need to validate our cross-build chain with cmp(1).

ELF object files are timestamped.  But there's some elf-cmp out there.

Martin
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