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Hi list, |
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I cross-compiled via the build tarball now, following the installation |
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instructions in INSTALL-BUILD up to the end. Two things came to my mind: |
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First, it ends with 'now follow the configure steps in the install |
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guide on www.gentoo.org'. As far as I read the documentation on the |
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site and the files from ibiblio.org, I built my own .tbz2 archive to |
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roast a cd-rom with it and then install it to my laptop. But some |
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users might not be as tremendously bright and clever -- and good-looking, |
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come to speak of it -- as I am and might be lost right at this point. |
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'follow the instructions' should at least include a pointer similar to |
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'from point XX on'. |
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Second, after having built everything, I ran |
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tar --numeric-owner -cvjpf gentoo-built-cockteau.tbz2 . |
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with cockteau being the name of my laptop. I pressed return, and went |
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away to make some sandwiches for breakfast, expecting this to last for |
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some minutes even on an athlon 800 with 256 megs of ram. But returning |
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20 minutes later, it was still running; checking the output of |
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the log file -- I log most things, mind you -- I noticed that the object |
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files left behind by the compiling process were archived as well as the |
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contents of /usr/portage/distfiles. |
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It might be part of a port system to hold copies of the source code |
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needed to build libs, programs and so on, but it is certainly not |
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neccessary to hold _two_ copies -- once as tarballs, once unpacked |
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to the temp dir. And there is absolutely no need to keep over |
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400 megabytes of object files. Browsing through the portage.py script |
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showed me an '--autoclean' option not mentioned in the installation |
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doc. Does it work? How/where to use it? |
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(btw, call me a nit-picking, but doesn't portage.py belong into the |
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site-packages subdir?) |
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ps: if anyone out there has a short and decent german translation for |
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the term 'cross compiling', i would love to hear it =) |
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thorsten |
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-- |
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thorsten fischer |
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<frosch at derfrosch dot de> |
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<tfischer at linux minus magazin dot de> |
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