hello gentooers. I have installed gentoo on my openmoko gta02 with good results, and i am using the native approach because the cross compiling way seems too much complicated and much less fun.. Anyway the 400 Mhz processor is really slow for compiling and i decided to setup the distributed compilation with distcc, and it works well ewithoutu much effort. The remaining problem is that each package configure phase is very slow, i think because of the slow disk access (it must read/write on the microsd card..). so, is there any tested way to speed up everything? i used ext3 for the partition filesystem, so i think that is slowing down everything.. i think that a ramdisk is very difficult to use because the device have got really small ram (120 Mb!), so maybe a network filesystem could do? another option seems to be an autotools capability of using a centralized cache file, and there was a portage feature "confcache", but it seems to have been removed for incorrect behaviour.. anyone know something about or has got good results with autotools caching?
thanks for any reply -- roby
