Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling Gentoo for Raspberry Pi (Was: List of base system packages)

[Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@gmail.com>]

On 04/02/13 at 12:14pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> Emulating the Pi on my machine would be slower since I have a dated
> E2180. It would be rather easier to get distcc on the Pi and make use
> of the 3 processors.
> 
> But need to first figure out how to install emerge there...
> alternatively, could go with paludis which is written in C++, so the
> nagging python thing won't be there.

In that case why don't you just go ahead and use the stage 3 provided 
for the pi? I know you said you didn't want to use it earlier, but
assuming your using the default profile to cross compile it will pull in
everything that's in the stage3 tarball anyway. 

Once the stage 3 is setup you can use distcc and get rid of the stuff
you dont want. 

Another thing you can do to speed things up is mount the root file
system over NFS or on a usb hdd. It was quite a bit faster in 
my experience

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- Yohan Pereira

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