Re: [MiNT] Gentoo FreeMiNT

[Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi>]

Hi,

On Tuesday 02 February 2010, Mark Duckworth wrote:
> > One possibility would be to do the RPM builds in e.g. Aranym using
> > distcc which calls the cross-compiler on the host machine to do the
> > actual C/C++ compilation.
>
> My initial tests show that this works fine too.  I just haven't had a
> chance to finish it and prove that it works perfectly.  Plus my mac pro
> at work is more than fast enough for my rpm building needs for now.

If you need to do frequent re-compiles and have the disk to spare, you could
use also ccache to speed up re-compiles, either at the host or Atari side.

It takes md5 hashes of pre-processed sources (and compiler flags I hope)
and if that matches hash for something it has already compiled and is still
in the cache (the size is configurable), it will return gcc a previously
compiled object file.  On host (distcc) side the md5 calculation is probably
a bit faster...


	- Eero