RE: cygwin and embedded linux

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, I wrote:

2. The "emulation" will never be 100%. Maybe 99%. Maybe 99.99%. That last
   fraction can be a major PITA, because it is not obvious. To compile a
   kernel you need a lot of tools with a lot of explicit and implicit twists
   to them. It is just a gut feeling that I wouldn't want to rely on this,
   if I don't have to. The native way just seems the better way to do it to
   me.

Since the term "native" seems to have triggered many other (very
interesting) posts, just for completeness: in fact I chose bad wording
for what I wanted to say in this post. In this case, with "native" I
merely meant a real Linux box (vs. a Windows box), not necessarily a
native ppc-linux machine.

Native ppc-linux is definitely one way to go, although I'd tend to
hold with one of the other posts to this thread. It pointed out the
necessity/robustness/repoducability/beauty of clearly distincting
between the host and the target.

Regards,
Marius

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