Subject: help with qt
To: None <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
From: Taras <taras.judge@shaw.ca>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 08/10/2005 12:06:32
Hi,
I've compiled quite a few ports for my mobilepro780 running 2.0.2 and 
cvs pkgsrc.  I was wondering if anyone could provide me with some advice 
on compiling QT. I have /usr/pkg/, /usr/pkgsrc and 1gb of swap mounted 
via NFS. So far I haven't run into any difficult to compile ports other 
than most multimedia stuff which doesn't like mips architecture and QT. 
QT requires a ton of RAM and so far I've been compiling a big file in it 
for 4 days with 18hours of cpu time for the c++ process, 24hours for 
pagedaemon and 3 hours of cpu for the nfs processes. Obviously, due to 
the insane amount of swapping, this is not working out very well.

I've also tried using a mips crosscompiler + distcc on the mobilepro, 
but the xcompiler produced some bad ASM on that file and compilation 
aborted.

My next trick is going to be to try using gxemul on a 1.4ghz 
athlon(which ends up slower than mobilepro) because there I can provide 
netbsd with more ram. However that's a hacky trick and probably will not 
work.

Does anyone have any better ideas on how to compile qt and possibly 
other memory hog ports for the mobilepro? I noticed that pkgsrc is 
starting to get ability to crosscompile ports, but that's only for ps2 
and arm right now.

Ideas?
Taras