> It doesn't work on a majority of packages, as I understand (build scripts
> that rely on running compiled code, that don't respect CC, and many other
> causes.)

oh that's dreadful. sounds like something that should be fixed and
submitted upstream.

--Gravis


On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@???> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 04:30:30AM -0500, Gravis wrote:
>> to my knowledge, cross compilation has minimal overhead. while having
>> native targets is good for testing, it won't have a significant impact
>> on compile time.
>
> It doesn't work on a majority of packages, as I understand (build scripts
> that rely on running compiled code, that don't respect CC, and many other
> causes.)
> You can use qemu, but that's generally ~80% CPU overhead.
>
> Thanks,
> Isaac Dunham
>