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Mark Knecht writes: |
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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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Oh my, this is fast. |
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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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I don't think this is possible. Maybe with an emulator, but that would |
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probably also be slow handling instructions for a different CPU. |
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I would give distcc a try. The configure and linking stuff is still done |
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on the local machine, but at least (most) of the compiles are done by the |
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fast machine, so this should safe some time. See the DistCC Cross- |
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compiling Guide guide [*] for information on how to set this up. It works |
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fine for me when I use my amd64 machine to create i686 binaries. |
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Wonko |
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[*] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml |
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