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the structure of the support for cross-compilation,
and arranging it for an arbitrary combination,
and the resulting file hierarchy, is also not trivial in gcc.


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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Plan9 and Ada95?
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dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com (David Gordon Hogan) writes:

> > Cross-compilation in GCC is a trivial matter.
>
> Having done a GCC port, I'd like to point out that with GCC,
> nothing is a trivial matter.

Cross-compilation is trivial; porting is not.
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