Re: Building on the z50

[Juergen Sell <juergen.sell%gmail.com@localhost>]

If you have working network, create an openvpn tunnel to your trusted machine and use distcc with a cross-compiler.
You get the cross-compiler from the bsd-kernel build environment,
for openvpn follow standard procedure,
distcc setup is explained in the docs.

I found this setup best, because it keeps the build environment on the mipsel target machine, thus dependencies and system checks work as expected. Just time consuming compile is being offloaded to another work horse.
Works like a charme for pkgsrc and other packages and for me resulted in usable vs. unbearable.
HTH, js

2009/10/7 Scott Lawrence <yorgle%gmail.com@localhost>

Hey all.

I use my z50 as a portable development machine.  It works great.
Awesome keyboard, excellent battery life, etc.

One thing though; the drive access times to the CF card are painful,
due to PIO access times.

Does anyone have any configuration suggestions wrt this?  I was
thinking that a 5 or 10 meg ramdisk would be great; have gcc put its
build files out there, or possibly have the source files copied out
there, then just refreshed back to the CF every so often. (whatever)

Anyone have suggestions on how to get a ramdisk/partition to be configured?

I tried to do it a few months back, with no good results.

-s

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Scott Lawrence
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