Hello Frank, * Frank Griffith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-10-06 17:01]: > I tried everything but it's still a no go. So today I backed up my server and > then blasted the drives away with a fresh install using 6.1-RELEASE. I am > updating the ports collection now. This machine is an old P166 and that takes > about 30-45 minutes. Then I will rebuild * from scratch. Since it will need > everything reinstalled it will take about 26 hours to do this on this old > server. And that's if I manage to catch all the screens that require input. > It's going to be a long night. > > Which brings me to my real question. I have a really fast AMD64 machine > that I occassional run 6.1-RELEASE with and it screams. The * build on it > only takes about 30 minutes. I've been told that I can use it to cross > compile software...but as usual, no one can tell me how. The only answers > I've gotten on this are RTFM, but I can't find this information anywhere in > the handbook and countless google and yahoo searches have only yielded sparce > references to the subject. Can anyone tell me how I cross compile between > these two machines or where I can find detailed instructions on how to do it? > > BTW - Remember, I'm updating the ports collection first so when it's all > done I will have *-1.2.12.1 on this machine. If it craps out with the same > errors I'm going to shoot myself with a water pistol filled with Jack Daniels.
you can use pkg_add to install precomplied version of this packages. It should be much faster for testing. Best regards, Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- Rich Cook _______________________________________________ Asterisk-BSD mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd
