From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17472 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2004 17:03:11 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 14 Aug 2004 17:03:11 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bw1vy-0001FZ-Oq for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 17:03:10 +0000 Received: (qmail 24069 invoked by uid 89); 14 Aug 2004 17:03:10 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 9247 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2004 17:03:09 +0000 X-Envelope-From: stefan@binarchy.net X-Envelope-To: Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 19:03:06 +0200 From: stefan@binarchy.net To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040814170306.GA18696@dice.seeling33.de> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.43 Subject: [gentoo-dev] cross compiling for a slow system X-Archives-Salt: 1b6e0d58-278b-432e-8be4-bad961f697c7 X-Archives-Hash: 1d18acb4fb31ad0d1330273a9f32ff1c I have a laptop with a p2 running at 300mhz and 128mb ram. While this is enough for ssh sesions to other hosts at work and browsing the web, or even playing a film with mplayer, everytime glibc gets updated I start looking out for alternatives to building glibc on the laptop. It simply takes too much time. I run distcc to compile most packages on the laptop, and together with the 3 other gentoo hosts on my lan compilation times for most packages are acceptable. But glibc does not build with distcc. Is there an easy automated way to build huge packages such as glibc, xorg and mozilla as a tbz package on a fast system, using foreign C- and USEFLAGS, and then install the tbz's on the target host? And if not, how easily do you reckon this could be implemented in portage? I'm quite profficient in python, so I might give this a go in my free time if it did not require a near portage rewrite. thanks stefan -- Imagine a science-fiction device that allows any sort of food or physical object to be infinitely duplicated. If somebody then tried to sell you a tire for your car, why in the world would you buy it? - from "Open Source Development with CVS" (Fogel, Bar) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list