Re: Cross-building environments
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 11:53 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 01:22:40PM +0100, David Fokkema wrote:
> > Wow, I'll have to sort through all those options... Since I want debian
> > packages, I'll have to check which ones are already being used, which
> > ones are against debian policy (the prefix one, for example) and which
> > ones may conflict with my original intent, and which ones I don't yet
> > understand, ;-) I had hoped to compile mysql-server-5.0 7etch3 version
> > and remove the patches one by one until I'm back at 7etch1. Hopefully, I
> > can determine which patch breaks my system. Unfortunately, this will
> > probably cost a lot of time, even with the --with-low-memory option, I
> > guess. Right now, it seems I'm not able to do it before next week, and
> > I'll be away then. So in a week or two... But very nice to know it is
> > possible to compile this beast on a slug, thanks!
>
> Remove half the patches, then if it fixes it, add half back, otherwise
> remove a further half of the remaining patches, etc until you narrow it
> down.
>
> One by one is a silly method.
Sure it is.
> Divide and conquor. Split the problem in half at each step and you will
> get there quicker.
>
> 1024 patches can be narrowed down in 10 compiles after all.
Nice, thanks for the idea. I hadn't approached this with an algorithmic
view, yet. All in all, we're talking about six patches, IIRC. Still,
three compiles is better than six!
David
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> Len Sorensen
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