Gotta love embedded developers...

[JD]

  On 07/18/2010 03:37 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Out of curiosity I downloaded the GPLed source code for the
> firmware in my new Netgear WNR3500L router. The first thing
> I see is the build instructions which start with:
>
>        1. This package has been built successfully on Fedora Core 2.
>           Compiling this package on platforms other than Fedora Core 2
>           may have unexpected results.
>
> Now there's someone who doesn't want their development platform
> changing on them :-).
>
> (This is the netgear firmware mind you, not dd-wrt, which is a
> different kettle of fish...).
I had to also do something similar for the building of the gnu
toolchain. It had to be build on original FC3 without updates,
in order to produce a working toolchain. It was for embedded
cross development (on x86 for mips).