Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-08-31 Thread Stuart Winter
is there a good guide how to set up distcc to build to help building arm packages on my x86_64 and i486 hosts? Yep. Go back to the FTP site and download the script dbuild - I just put it there. PS: Could the 128 MB RAM on my Dockstar be a problem, even if I use distcc? Depends what you're

Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-08-31 Thread Christophe Lyon
Did you use distcc there, too? What about moving all jobs to the other hosts? I know there are still tasks left for the build host (linking?), but no idea how much RAM they need. But I've already thought that RAM will be a problem. Perhaps there may be some tricks that can help, e.g.

Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-08-31 Thread Stuart Winter
Why wouldn't you completely cross-build? I tried when I first started AS back in 2002 and it wasn't a lot of fun. Some will build nicely and easily, but there are some builds which require the just-compiled binaries to be executed in order to create data files or something like that. Also, when