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That seems a reasonable guess, but it brings me straight back to wondering why such a diversity of build environments is necessary or useful. And my wild guess
by jeffparsons 3y ago
That seems a reasonable guess, but it brings me straight back to wondering why such a diversity of build environments is necessary or useful. And my wild guess is that it's mostly because cross compilation is still a second class citizen in most languages today. Though I guess it could be a kind of cultural expectation that you should be able to compile the whole OS on the hardware you're running it on.
- steveklabnik 3y agoMy understanding is that the policy of the project is that the base system must not be cross compiled. My understanding of why is that they want to be able to fully bootstrap from base itself.