Comment Re:Hardware? (Score 1) 145
Right, but we are doing this âoethe Debian wayâ, that is, running a native compilation and package generation in clean throw-away chroots. Debian package generation is not just compilation, itâ(TM)s a bunch of other stuff (dependency management, shared library management, etc.) and, personally *and* from my experience with the BSDs and FreeWRT, I am of the opinion that cross-compiling is only good for initially bootstrapping a port.
Besides, natively compiling forced us to fix lots of bugs in the kernel, eglibc and gcc, and backport other stuff to gcc, and to eat our own dogfood.
My goal with this was *not* just to have a system running Linux/m68k, but to have the process of auto-building packages working. (If you research, youâ(TM)ll find out that Iâ(TM)m a die-hard x86 and GW-BASIC fan, so I have no history with m68k other than eyeing them strangely for having the wrong endianness.) Also, I learned a lot of how Debian works in the process