Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo vs Raspbian on Raspberry Pi 3?

[Danny YUE]

On 2017-06-27 22:21, Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote:
> On 28/06/17 02:29, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote:
>> Where they using the original RPI? I built LXQT on an RPI2 and it did
>> not take me a day.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:26 AM, R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com
>> <mailto:r030t1@×××××.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:44 AM, konsolebox <konsolebox@×××××.com
>>     <mailto:konsolebox@×××××.com>> wrote:
>>     > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:37 AM, R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com <mailto:r030t1@×××××.com>> wrote:
>>     >> it's
>>     >> not experience.
>>     >
>>     > Ok.
>>     >
>>
>>     Why do you think I made it up? I was quoting people who had done it.
>>
>>
>
> rpi1 ~ # genlop -t gcc
>  * sys-devel/gcc
>
>      Fri Jul  1 10:01:57 2016 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.9.3
>        merge time: 1 day, 4 hours, 32 minutes and 26 seconds.
>
>      Fri Nov  4 10:49:45 2016 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.9.4
>        merge time: 1 day, 4 hours, 43 minutes and 51 seconds.
>
> rpi1 ~ #
>
> rpi1 ~ # genlop -t glibc
>  * sys-libs/glibc
>
>      Fri May 20 02:48:34 2016 >>> sys-libs/glibc-2.22-r4
>        merge time: 5 hours, 30 minutes and 52 seconds.
>
>      Thu Sep  1 20:07:48 2016 >>> sys-libs/glibc-2.22-r4
>        merge time: 4 hours, 58 minutes and 44 seconds.
>
>      Fri Jan 13 15:11:12 2017 >>> sys-libs/glibc-2.23-r3
>        merge time: 5 hours, 19 minutes and 51 seconds.
>
> rpi1 ~ #
>
> pi model B (512M ram), ccache and distcc to a single vm with crossdev
>
> Fact! :)
>
> BillK

I do not really understand, since building on RPI takes so long compared
with PC, why do you still compile natively?
Is it because cross compiling will cause any bugs or failure?

I mean, even some packages will fail with cross compiler, it is still
possible to cross compile some *big* packages...

Danny