Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-09-08 Thread Stuart Winter
[snip] Yes you understand it perfectly. The $PATH thing is a dirty hack but works nicely in 99% of cases. > And I probably have to do the same trick with the PATH on the host machines so > that the cross compiler is run? Check the file 'rc.local-addition' - this is how I start distcc on the x86

Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-09-08 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Tuesday 31 August 2010 12:03:15 schrieb 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. OK, had time to take a look a

Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-09-01 Thread Conor McCarthy
On 1 September 2010 10:07, Stuart Winter wrote: > >> > Too bad shipping costs are so high between Germany & France :-( >> >> I've seen it somewhere in France for 19 ?, too. But IIRC this was one of > > I haven't had time to digest this site, so I'll only post the link with > the thought that NewIT

Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-09-01 Thread Stuart Winter
> > Too bad shipping costs are so high between Germany & France :-( > > I've seen it somewhere in France for 19 ?, too. But IIRC this was one of I haven't had time to digest this site, so I'll only post the link with the thought that NewIT can ship it around Europe cheaper than GlobalScale in the

Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-08-31 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Tuesday 31 August 2010 14:27:31 schrieb 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

Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-08-31 Thread Tyler T
> PS: Could the 128 MB RAM on my Dockstar be a problem, even if I use distcc? I compiled MythTV on my DockStar using distcc so my SheevaPlug could do all the grunt work (not cross-compiling in my case). RAM and CPU consumption on the 'Star were very very low except linking; I had to add 32MB of sw

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

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. > ht

Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-08-31 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Tuesday 31 August 2010 12:03:15 schrieb 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. Thanks, I'll have a look ther

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

[ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-08-31 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi, is there a good guide how to set up distcc to build to help building arm packages on my x86_64 and i486 hosts? What I have right now: I've compiled the cross toolchain from ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/armedslack-devtools/x-toolchain/ and installed it in /opt/arm/$LOCALARCH I've ins