Re: kernel compile, build machine?
on 6/24/02 6:32 using moldy cheese solid@V-LO.krakow.pl engraved this
message
> hello all!
> i am currently in progress of installing potato 2.2r6 on a 64MB RAM,
> 4GB + 240 MB disk storage (with 500MB dedicated to macos 8.0).
> it has has a 040 processor running at 30mhz, and it has a proper fpu
> and mmu(i have run succesfully the debian2.2r0 installer). As i am a
> huge fan of the 2.4 kernel series, which in my opinion is really
> faster and as stable as the 2.2 series, i will want to have a current
> 2.4 kernel on it. but the compilation on this machine would take DAYS
> and i'd like to do it as fast as possible(no longer than 2 days) and i
> unfortunately can't have the machien working at night, so i want to do
> a kernel cross-compilation on my 686 machine. it is running
> debian-sid, with a 2.4.18 kernel.
> my question is, how to achieve such a cross compilation:) some time
> ago, i have compiled gcc 2.95.3 with support for cross compilation for
> m68k and sparc, everything went fine. the problem is binutils,
> actually the as assembler- although binutils where compiled for all
> platforms, (it was a long time ago, i might have forgotten something)
> as could assemble only one platform at a time. and if it was m68k, it
> just didn't work. i would really appreciate it, if it would be
> possible, to have the solution in a deb file, so i can keep my machine
> tidy:)
>
> also, as i don't have any specific uses for the machine, i would
> really love it to help the linux/m68k world- especially as build
> machine.
>
> [solid]
>
i have a mac Quadra 800 (33Mhz 040) and i have never taken days for a kernel
compile... 3-5 hours at most that is a 2.2 kernel but still i cant see a 2.4
kernel taking significantly longer...
sloopy.
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