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Re: hidden help in make



On Friday 21 June 2019 20:23:17 Alan Corey wrote:

> unzip is much faster than mc on big files.  mc is just convenient for
> small stuff.
>   unzip file
> or see the man page

I have wondered about that, but in this case the BIG  bottleneck is the 
pinhole sized channel thru usb2 to that drive..  The network is all 
gigabit stuff, and mc can keep it fairly busy.






































































































































































































































































































































































































































































> On 6/21/19, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > On Friday 21 June 2019 10:29:20 Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> Which makes it easier to build/install an rt kernel, BUT
> >>
> >> now I need to define for an rpi 3b, LOADADDR, as applied to
> >> building a uImage.
> >>
> >> Where can I find this info for an r-pi-3b?
> >
> > Seems I found that, but without any further real progress, it needs
> > a copy of mkimage which is part of raspberrypi-tools according to
> > google, get it from github, its not in the repos by any recognizable
> > name. Found the zip, 300+ megabytes, and now mc has cracked the zip
> > and it is copying 907 megabytes worth of stuff to the 120GB ssd on
> > the pi as build scratchpad over my local network, with an estimated
> > completion time of about 13.5 HOURS, but thats growing by nominally
> > 30 secs everytime mc updates its progress.  Then I expect I have to
> > process it with dpkg-buildpackage, probably at least another DAY to
> > generate and install the deb.
> >
> > All because I need whats likely less than a megabyte of executable
> > code thats in there somewhere. Seems to me that binary ought to be
> > included in build-essential...  Sigh.....
> >
> > Several hours Later, 40% copied, 4 hrs 31 minutes to go. Dinner is
> > in the oven and my last load of laundry is in the washer.
> >
> >> Thanks anybody.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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