From: Jaap-Jan Boor <jjboor@lucent•com>
To: brian.auld@adic•com
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: PowerMac vs. Intel for PowerPC Development Host
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:22:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E54904A.2F303A80@lucent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 995FF289C9D69747A09E42992644595405B23678@penguin.adic.com
Brian,
I think one advantage of using a mac with linuxppc as host (I use that @ home)
is that you can use newer compiler/library versions a little bit more
easy. I wasn't able yet to cross compile gcc-3.x for ppc on Solaris host,
it worked however on the mac.
Jaap-Jan
brian.auld@adic•com wrote:
>
> A while back I wrote an email to this list regarding development kit
> suggestions. Based mainly on feedback from this email, I am currently moving
> in the Intel/ELDK direction.
>
> Out of all the feedback I received, only one person suggested developing on
> a PowerMac based Linux box, thus eliminating the need for cross-compiling. I
> have become more interested in this option as some people in our company
> have noted that cross-compiling embedded linux presented problems on past
> projects when it came to building certain 3rd party applications.
>
> In the Intel vs. Mac debate for a linux development host for embedded ppc
> development, if money was not an issue, would I get more PowerMac
> recommendations??
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Brian
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-20 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-19 21:52 PowerMac vs. Intel for PowerPC Development Host brian.auld
2003-02-19 22:29 ` Mark Hatle
2003-02-19 22:29 ` Kenneth Johansson
2003-02-19 22:29 ` bob piatek
2003-02-19 22:44 ` Wolfgang Denk
2003-02-20 1:01 ` Chris Wedgwood
2003-02-20 1:22 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-02-20 5:10 ` Eugene Surovegin
2003-02-20 5:45 ` Chris Wedgwood
2003-02-20 19:43 ` Cort Dougan
2003-02-20 19:40 ` Cort Dougan
2003-02-20 8:22 ` Jaap-Jan Boor [this message]
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