On Thursday 23 April 2009 18:31:47 Previdi Roberto wrote: > hello gentooers. I have installed gentoo on my openmoko gta02 with > good results, and i am using the native approach because the cross > compiling way seems too much complicated and much less fun.. Anyway > the 400 Mhz processor is really slow for compiling and i decided to > setup the distributed compilation with distcc, and it works well > ewithoutu much effort. The remaining problem is that each package > configure phase is very slow, i think because of the slow disk access > (it must read/write on the microsd card..). > so, is there any tested way to speed up everything? i used ext3 for > the partition filesystem, so i think that is slowing down everything.. > i think that a ramdisk is very difficult to use because the device > have got really small ram (120 Mb!), so maybe a network filesystem > could do? > another option seems to be an autotools capability of using a > centralized cache file, and there was a portage feature "confcache", > but it seems to have been removed for incorrect behaviour.. anyone > know something about or has got good results with autotools caching? > > thanks for any reply 1. Why don't put hole rootfs to NFS? Boot from SHR, chroot, and let's emerge begin. 2. Wireless network on neo can be faster than wired. (usb1.1 net too slow) 3. swap file on nfs should work too.
BUT I really suggest cross compilation 1. more fun 2. it is the way, what all embedded should use 3. don't be lazy!
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