  Compiling Debian from source, with GCC 3.4.2   It's my task to
compile a complete Debian distribution from source.  The main
goal is to test our version of the GCC compiler, SDE, which is
based on 3.4.2, and has more tuning/optimisations for the MIPS
architecture. The second goal is to be able to say: "Here is a
Debian distribution, compiled with our compiler, and look, it's
smaller and faster". A third goal is going to find every single
package that wont compile out of the box.  So far, I've got a
*small* tcsh script, that uses packages from a local source
mirror and calls pbuilder.  Soon I hope to set up a buildd +
sbuild, to keep up with releases.  The way I have pbuilder set
up is to use one of two chroots, one as default with GCC 3.3,
the other has our SDE compiler packaged to look like GCC 3.3.
This was the only way I could find to let Debian compile things
without using GCC.  I understand that the entire point of
dependencies is to ensure things just work, but I'm trying to
find out where SDE breaks