As many Haiku community members know, one major hurdle that has been making it difficult to port new software to Haiku has been the lack of an up-to-date GCC4 compiler. While a GCC 4.1.2 cross-compiler has been available now for some time, cross-compiling software for a GCC4-built Haiku can be painful and frustrating. What Haiku really needed was a native GCC4 toolchain to run on a GCC4-built Haiku install.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2009-01-31_haiku_finally_gets_a_native_gcc4_full_story_inside/