[ale] Fast NFS

[Mike Panetta]

Thats possible I suppose, but glibc is not one of
them.  Thats what he was trying to compile was it not?
I still suggest leaving the complicated and large
packages up to a cross compiler.  It will save much time
and headaches.

In your experience what programs are unfriendly to
compile with a cross compiler?  So I do not have to
fight with them in future.  I have not run into many,
and the entire uClinux distro has tackled that problem
on many different software packages, so I usually pick
from there if I can.  In my experience almost anything
that is set up to use autotools is very cross compiler
friendly, assuming your environment is set up properly.
It did not used to be this way however.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephan Uphoff <ups at tree.com>
Sent: Sep 12, 2004 5:33 PM
To: Mike Panetta <ahuitzot at mindspring.com>, 
	Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] Fast NFS

On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 16:54, Mike Panetta wrote:
> I would just say he is misguided and needs to stop compiling
> code on an embedded system.  Thats what cross compilers
> are for.

Yes ... but some build processes are cross compiler
unfriendly.

Maybe he just wants to compile a few cross compile 
unfriendly software packages.


>   Also embedded systems should (ideally) have all the
> ram they need without falling back to swap.  If he is swaping
> (with a 'normal' load) he needs more ram.  Most (I would say
> around 90%, but do not quote me on that one, its just from
> personal experience) of all embedded linux systems do not
> have swap.  If the system was properly profiled it should not
> need it anyway and in most cases there is no way to add it
> without resorting to using some slower media (like NFS) which
> would horribly cripple the system anyway.  My answer would be
> stop being cheap and put more ram on the system.

I don't think the task of his embedded system will be to compile
gcc ;-) 

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> Mike
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephan Uphoff <ups at tree.com>
> Sent: Sep 12, 2004 3:25 PM
> To: bob at verysecurelinux.com, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Fast NFS
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> However it looks like he is lucky and just needs to tune his VM.
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