Mark,

You can speed the process up considerably by cross-compiling with distcc if
you have a faster NetBSD machine (e.g., an i386) available and IP-reachable 
anywhere.  I regularly use an i386 desktop to build kernels and packages 
for my Jornada 728.

The instructions here should help:

	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2005/01/03/0000.html

-- 
Alex Poylisher
sher{at}komkon{dot}org


On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 09:48:10AM -0400, Mark Cyzyk wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> (I've finally gotten NetBSD 3.0 up and running on my Jornada 720, with 
> the help of Jason Mitchell's very useful jinstall.gz file....)
> 
> Compiling software (using swap space on an NFS mount) is turning out to 
> be a nightmare.  One package depends on another package which in turn 
> depends on another which is itself dependent on a package which 
> ultimately fails the build process, breaking the chain all the way back 
> up.  (In my case, I can't for the life of me get Perl5 to compile...)
> 
> I am noticing that there are A LOT of precompiled packages for NetBSD 
> 1.6 on HPCARM up on the NetBSD ftp site.  Does anyone know if/where 
> these same packages might exist, but compiled for NetBSD 3.0?   If there 
> were an archive somewhere of all this then we could just 'pkg_add' and 
> all would be well.
> 
> Also, has anyone noticed that you can't really reboot from within HPCARM 
> for NetBSD 3.0?  It boots back out to WinCE, and I don't know about you 
> but even then I have to take the battery out and put it back in to reset 
> the monitor to acceptable levels of brightness/contrast.  Then it's back 
> to hpcboot.exe, etc. etc.  Oh, also, I can't seem to contact the 'apm' 
> deamon on my system.  But I'm betting that this was something that just 
> wasn't toggled on when the kernel I'm using was compiled?
> 
> Mark Cyzyk
> mcyzyk@comcast.net
> 
>