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On 08/16/2010 02:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I know nothing about this sort of stuff so I don't know where to |
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> even start looking. Thanks in advance for any pointers. |
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> Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fast Core i7 980x |
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> processor. It is capable of doing emerge -e @world (including XFCE4, |
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> Gnome and KDE) in around 4 hours. On the other hand my MythTV backend |
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> server is an old PowerPC which takes literally days (2? 3? 4?) to do |
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> the same thing with only fluxbox on the system. While this was OK a |
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> few years ago it's not something I'm enjoying much anymore. (Did I |
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> then?) |
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> So, the question is can I somehow set up an environment on my AMD64 |
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> machine where I build PowerPC binary packages using emerge, ssh them |
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> over to the Mac and then emerge them there to get the machine up to |
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> date quickly? What do I read to understand how to do this? |
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> Note that it's fine to build the kernel, ymboot and machine |
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> specific stuff on the Mac as that's very minimal. |
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You want to get your hands on the crossdev package. There's LOTS of |
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stuff to know to get this to work right. But people use cross compilers |
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every day all day. |
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