-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Mallinson wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to speed up fink installs on my new Leopard machine. > Our group has a couple of fast linux boxes which I'd like to > ideally set up as binary repositories. The problem obviously is > that they run (i686) Linux, not Darwin. It seems to me that I > should be able to compile fink and tell it to use a cross-compiler > to build all the packages, and then proceed as normal for a custom > respository. > > I've played a bit with distcc but obviously it wouldn't be as > ideal a solution b/c I'd still need to initiate the builds from my > mac--I'd rather have the server churn away and do the compilations > itself. > > Does anyone have any suggestions or experience doing this kind of > thing? > > Option 2: I thought of running a small virtual machine on the > server, installing Darwin, and then running fink on it. Perhaps > this would be simpler than cross-compiling. > > NB If the sodan repositories were compiling 10.5 that would be the > easiest solution! > > Any help, ideas, etc. would be great! > One of the core developers has played around with cross-compiling and distcc for Fink:
http://www.racoonfink.com/archives/000661.html http://www.racoonfink.com/archives/000666.html http://www.racoonfink.com/archives/000674.html There may be more progress that what's posted in the blog entries above. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHcFaNB8UpO3rKjQ8RAkVhAJ0TFTtazBZql4qsp/8N2h1vnJmuPwCeOd94 hyNFeb1fbvDRdg478Ra16w4= =x2k/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
