Hello! This is just to tell you that cross-gnu is back alive. See <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/building/cross-compiling.html>.
Next is C++ support, integrating futher glibc / GCC stuff from my various scattered repositoreis, as well as the Debian ones. (Also pushing bit by bit upstream, of course.) (And fix all shortcoming we discover along the way.) (Yes, all of 'em.) ;-) Seriously, there is a Grand Plan of evolving this into a complete regression testing system: use these toolchains to build (i.e., cross compile) a complete bootable system distribution based on only the source code. This could perhaps be done by using either Arch Hurd (status?), or Hydra, <http://hydra.nixos.org/project/gnu> (Ludovic, interested?). (I know that there's some work being done on making Debian packages better cross-compilable too, but that's not yet generally usable.) These from-scratch-built system would them be booted in a Xen domU, the packages' usual regression test suites be run, and evaluated. The latter regression testing can also be done with systems constructed by means of running crosshurd, and that's also part of what I intend to do, as promised some many moons ago. Regards, Thomas
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