In message <33B1DCC8.4B49@storm.ca> Stan Pietkiewicz writes:
: IFIRC, Gnu C can be configured for cross-platform, cross-OS compilation?
: If that's the case, I'll put the Alpha to work.......

Yes.  configure --target x-y-z works really well.  I've done
FreeBSD/i386 to:
	Linux/i386
	Linux/mips
	NetBSD/mips
	OpenBSD/mips
	Solaris/sparc
	Solaris/x86
	SunOS/sparc
	SunOS/m68k
and maybe a few others that I can't recall right now.

The reason I do this is because the cross compilation on my PPro often
times is many times faster than the native compilation on the actual
iron (especially for my R4400 based machine).

Warner