Re: ELC access to hifive unleashed boards

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 1:43 AM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
<manuel.montezelo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Some of the support for profiles and cross-compilation can even help
> to have to speed up things if they work, if native compilations of
> critical packages turn out to be very slow (texlive, browsers...).

 oh that reminds me:

    https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22831

 i've been speaking to the binutils development team about the
[insane] thrashing that goes on during linker phase [and has been for
some time].  he recommends trying out "-Wl,--no-keep-memory", i
thought you might appreciate knowing about that, it may even help on
native compilations [and/or under qemu].  as you've no doubt found out
already, you do *not* want to go into swap on qemu builds :) archlinux
(parabola) found that qemu-arm is guaranteed to crash at the linker
phase if the emulated OS starts thrashing.

l.