Re: Mojo

[Miko Nieminen <miko nieminen nomovok com>]

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 14:44 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 15:28 +0300, Miko Nieminen wrote:
> > Ångström is very interesting as a distribution, but it is build around
> > OpenEmbeded which is build around cross-compilation like Maemo and
> > that's what we want to get rid of.
> > 
> > Mojo goes with native builds (currently by using Qemu) like Debian and
> > I'm in favour of that approach. Using native build just works much
> > better, check that Andrew's presentation. With cross-compilation you
> > need to be quite careful about which versions of different tools to
> > select for your toolchain, with native build you don't have that many
> > problems.
> 
> Maemo uses QEMU to compile "natively", it doesn't cross-compile.
> 

Actually it does cross-compilation, it just hides it very well. Though I
haven't checked how Scratchbox 2 does it, but most probably it uses also
cross-compilation. Taken from Scratchbox site:
"Welcome to the scratchbox.org website, the home of the
cross-compilation toolkit project."

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