Not an apologist by any means and all that makes sense. I've found it easy and not-a-problem to bump those versions in the config file and made gcc 11.2.0 compi

Not an apologist by any means and all that makes sense. I've found it easy and not-a-problem to bump those versions in the config file and made gcc 11.2.0 compilers with everything up-to-date this way quite recently. There's also this fork of MCM that's a fair amount more active, as it backs musl.cc. I probably should have mentioned it https://git.zv.io/toolchains/musl-cross-make https://git.zv.io/toolchains/musl-cross-make Regardless, your argument that a distro taking care of something for you is exactly what they're there for. Makes sense to me. Mostly surfacing that there's multiple ways to handle that sort of thing. I find cross compiling simplest with these and version bumping wasn't a big deal at all compared to the complexities of other ways of cross compiling.