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Re: How should stalin be handled on slower architectures?



* Cameron Patrick:

> Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> > I suppose using distcc or similar will help a bit and not need
>> > modification to packages, though.
>> 
>> distcc doesn't help at all because it doesn't solve the problem of
>> huge files.
>
> It does if the distcc slaves are e.g. fast i386 cross-compilers
> spitting out m68k or MIPS machine code.  The build system doesn't know
> what architecture the distcc machines are running, it's all abstracted
> through the distcc network protocol.

Ah, this is indeed a clever idea. 8-) It's vastly superior to complete
emulation.



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