[Aboriginal] Aboriginal

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sun Sep 11 12:25:59 PDT 2011


On 09/05/2011 07:33 AM, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> 2011/8/31 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>:
> [...]
>> _won't_ find stuff that screws up the build.  For example, if you have
>> python installed on the host, distcc includes python support (including
>> in the cross compile), and then distcc won't run on the target without
>> python being installed on the target.  This is just one of about 30
>> different (subtle) ways the build finds to fail, depending on your host
>> configuration.
> 
> You are right. You have convinced me so I just reverted to "full" build.
> Now I'm trying ccache to see if it can reduce build time....

Did ccache help?

I don't want to add that complexity by default, but I'd happily include
a FAQ entry to how to set it up...

> [...]
>>> What do you think about drop CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y and CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y and
>>> add CONFIG_EXT4_FS with CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23 for provide support
>>> for 3 fs with only one implementation (aka fs/ext4)?
>>
>> Does the ext4 driver mount ext2 and ext3 filesystems?  I haven't really
>> played with it yet...
>>
>> Hmmm...  That's kind of cool.  I'll take a look at that this weekend,
>> thanks.
> 
> I just tested here and it works!

I tried it here and it seems to work, doing regression testing on the
various platforms now...

> Ciao,
> Alessio

Thanks,

Rob



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