20 Jun
2006
20 Jun
'06
10:57 a.m.
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 13:12, Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Chuck Guzis once
stated:
Actually, NetBSD makes cross-compiling really easy. I've set this up by
hand before, and it's way more complicated than the NetBSD build system
makes it. I did this while compiling test kernels for a Sun3 box,
using an Netbsd/x86_64 system.
Pat
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After watching an 800MHz P3 system build Gnome
(and its dependent
packages) on a NetBSD system, I got to wondering how usable NetBSD
is on older slower hardware, such as MicroVAX II.
If you want to build Perl or X or the kernel, what do you do?
Start the make and come back in a week?
If I was real concerned about speed, I would use a modern PC (read:
over 3GHz) and set up GCC for cross-compilation to the target
architecture. Probably not for the feight of heart though.