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On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:04:19 -0500 |
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Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello Gentoo users, I have one of the higher end pentium 3s running at 1ghz |
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> on a laptop. I have started to install Gentoo on it. Once Stage 3 |
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> (Hardened) and Portage were installed, the first things I installed |
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> were vim and distcc. My desktop is a amd quad core at 2.8 ghz stock. |
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> When I had Gentoo on it once before, compiling went really fast using |
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> MAKEOPT=-j5. My desktop is now running Fedora 16 and it's 64-bit, |
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> LUKS, RAID0. I looked up from the Gentoo Handbook and the Gentoo Wiki |
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> documentation about distcc. It all seems to assume that all the other |
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> computers are also running Gentoo. Also because the desktop is running |
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> 64-bit Fedora, and the laptop can only run 32 bit, there is the need |
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> for cross compiling. Here's all the issues I am running into that I'm |
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> asking for help to solve. |
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> 1. Both systems are not Gentoo. |
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> 2. Fedora has distcc and distccd available in the repos, but both |
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> packages are 64 bit. |
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> 3. The need for cross-compiling between architectures. The Gentoo Wiki |
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> says use crossdev. That package is available in the Gentoo |
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> repositories through emerge, but when I checked with my Fedora system, |
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> it was not. |
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> 4. According to what I read, gcc version a.b.c where a, b, and c are |
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> numbers, a and b need to be the same on both systems. It is ok for c |
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> to be different. My Gentoo has gcc 4.5.x while Fedora has gcc 4.6.x. |
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> So my question is if this is do-able and if anybody has experience |
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> doing this. I want to do the distcc both for the learning experience |
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> and because just emerging distcc on the laptop alone took at least 2 |
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> hours. |
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> Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire@×××××.com> |
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> Ubuntu 64 bit Linux Raid Level 0 |
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What about a different approach: gentoo in a VM on the desktop |
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Would that not be much easier? |
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Of course some processor power is used for the VM itself, but it should still significantly decrease compilation time on the laptop. |
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Plus you can easily equip other machines with that VM and use their power too. |