Hi Sam, On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 06:21, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 08:55:48AM +1000, Julian Calaby wrote: >> Hi Sam, >> >> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 06:44, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Hi all. >> > >> > bisect will take some time as my build-machine is not exactly >> > quick - so I expect no result until sometime tomorrow. >> > But the good thing is that it is easy to test :-) >> >> I'm investigating distcc as a solution for this as part of my latest >> attempt to get Gentoo Linux onto my SS10. I've read some success >> stories, however they're on my other computer, if you're interested, >> I'll send you a link to the "official" Gentoo sparc/distcc guide. > > distcc require spare computers - for now I do most of my > linux stuff on one Intel dual-core Atom based box. > I have a quad-core box - but it is seldom powered on. Ok, fair enough, my work environment means that I have at least two other computers on when working with my Sparc equipment, one of which is a fairly powerful x86 box. Distcc makes sense for my use case as I will be doing a lot of compiling. > The quad-core would be fine for bisect etc. but then > I have to install a lot.... > In practice I am much slower than the computer, > so it actualy hurts less than one may think. Makes sense =) Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
