[haiku] Re: Booting Haiku PPC

> > IIRC you currently can only build Haiku PPC on x86 via a PPC cross 
> > compiler.
> > At least the last time I tried, there were still some endian issues 
> > with the
> > build tools, namely the bfs_shell to create the image.
> 
> 
> Are you serious? Couldn't we just, like, compile GCC for PowerPC? Or
> was PPC unsupported in the version of PPC (which would be pretty
> mystifying because of BeOS' history, unless they used some 
> proprietary
> compiler)? Or is it simply because we're using JAM (about which I
> still remain completely ignorant) to build our system?

BeOS on ppc is built with mwcc, and doesn't use ELF, I don't want to 
even try building a cross gcc for that.
Besides it'll be abysmally slow anyway.

François.

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