on 06/14/2012 02:05 AM YoYo Siska wrote the following: > > 3. Mount the laptops root filesystem through nfs on the fast computer > (use no_root_squash on the laptop export to have correct root access to > files) bind-mount something local (disk or tmpfs if you have enough mem) > over /var/tmp/portage, chroot into it (don't forget to mount /proc, > maybe /sys and maybe bind-mount /dev, though that should not be needed > and don't forget 'linux32 chroot') and run emerges there... you will > actually be running everything on the fast computer, only the access to > the laptops disk will be through the network. With a fast network it > should be a lot faster then working ont the slower notebook (note that > if you bind-mount /var/tmp/portage inside the chroot, most of the > compilation will be working with a local disk...) Compared to the distcc > method, even the configure phases will be much faster... I do this > often with my Pentium M 1.6Ghz thinkpad laptop and my quad core amd64 > desktop...
Exactly. I do this too. You also need to pay attention and set CFLAGS correctly and not to "native". Like: CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
