Lessons Learned Get Someone Else to do the Hard Bits! Odd and/or Bleeding-Edge Tool Revisions Suck gcc-2.96+RH for ia64 is unique in Debian hppa is first Debian platform with gcc-3.X as default always a step ahead of the pack on glibc Toolchain Stability Takes a While gcc ICE's ABI (non-)Events Is it Really Working? Only Userspace Will Tell You It's Easy to Be Fooled