Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-18 Thread Geoff Crompton 

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:43:24AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
 One other thing I noticed is that Gentoo brought up my disks in UDMA
 100 mode, Debian did not. Ofcourse I went in to change this in
 Debian. Et voila, a speed increase that I never thought of getting
 before.
  

  'scuse my ignorance. How do you configure UDMA 100 (or the other
  modes)? 

  Geoff Crompton


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need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-17 Thread Cameron Matheson 

Hi,

I played around w/ gentoo a few months ago (and promptly came back to 
debian (i missed apt) ).   But i do miss the optimization i experienced 
w/ gentoo (despite what everyone says, there was a very noticeable 
difference in performance on my machine between debian and gentoo), so i 
did some searching and found this stuff on debianplanet:

debianplanet
There have been several discussions about building Debian from source. I 
hacked together a script today that will rebuild all installed packages 
-- it's written in perl and operates very smoothly.
The URL for my script is 
http://www.rootshell.be/~kp2sushi/source_builder.pl 
http://www.rootshell.be/%7Ekp2sushi/source_builder.pl.

*Robot101*: Yes, the idea of building everything from source has been 
discussed before here http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=452, 
here http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=675, here 
http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=521, here 
http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=271, and here 
http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=591. The general consensus 
is that it's a bit of a time-waster except for building optimised 
versions of a handful of CPU intensive packages such as bzip, gzip , 
mozilla and glibc. After woody releases, we may see support for this 
added to dpkg and apt, allowing a few select packages to ship with 
optimised versions where appropriate.
/debianplanet

I dont' really want to build everything from source (that takes way too 
long on my k6-2), but i was thinking maybe compiling glibc, moz, 
(g|bz)ip, etc might be a good thing... what would be the best way to go 
about this?

Thanks,
Cameron Matheson




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Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry 

On Tuesday 17 September 2002 14:40, Cameron Matheson wrote:

 I dont' really want to build everything from source (that takes way too
 long on my k6-2), but i was thinking maybe compiling glibc, moz,
 (g|bz)ip, etc might be a good thing... what would be the best way to go
 about this?


two packages: pbuilder and pentium-builder.  One makes a chroot for compiling 
apps in the other wraps gcc and causes it to use machine level optimizations.


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Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-17 Thread Cameron Matheson 

Hi,

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

two packages: pbuilder and pentium-builder.  One makes a chroot for compilin
apps in the other wraps gcc and causes it to use machine level optimizations.

excuse my simplicity, but you could go into a little more detail (maybe 
an example?), i could probably figure out some crude hack, but i want to 
do this the Right Way.

Thanks for the reply,
Cam




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