Hi Roberto, > 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? >
For embedded target tests I always mounted some NFS filesystem on the /var/tmp directory. I can not estimate how it will behave with wireless network, but wir wired one, the performance was quite good. > 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? > Do you mean ccache??? Need to install the package also named ccache and add "ccache" to your FEATURES in make.conf Cheers, Daniel
