Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> writes:
It is not a little slow, but painfully slow (remember: the compiler runs in an emulated environment, where each CPU instruction issued by the compiler is translated into a CPU instruction that the host CPU understands, and the result is somehow translated back).
Yes, I've noticed that the ./configure step is especially painful, because of all of the little test programs that it compiles. Running ./configure for a small project took the good part of half an hour.
If you really want to do this, it might be better (but surely not easier, this is rather Voodoo) to port makepkg to using a cross-compiler toolchain.
Sounds risky, as well. At some point, it'll become worthwhile to simply upgrade my platform. -- Chris