this came by the crossgcc mailing list.

"matrix of pain" seems quite apropos.  aren't all of NetBSD's platforms
cross-buildable, excepting 32-to-64 and vice-versa?

----- Forwarded message from Daniel Kegel <dank@kegel.com> -----

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 13:02:32 -0700
From: Daniel Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
To: crossgcc <crossgcc@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Quote of the day: "matrix of pain"

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-5657239.html is an
interview with Ken Klein, CEO of Wind River, about their switch to Linux.
Here's my favorite bit:

-- snip --
ZDNet: What are the complexities of Linux in the embedded market?
Klein: It's very fragmented. In servers, one processor architecture matters.
In the embedded market, there are about 60 that matter.
That complexity is what I call the matrix of pain.
-- snip --

And I thought the matrix at http://kegel.com/crosstool/current/buildlogs/
was painful enough, with its pitiful 26 architectures :-)

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