Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757046AbZANCvt (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:51:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752049AbZANCvh (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:51:37 -0500 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:44801 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752687AbZANCvf (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:51:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:51:16 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier To: Paul Mundt , Sam Ravnborg , "Mark A. Miller" , Bernd Petrovitsch , Leon Woestenberg , Rob Landley , "H. Peter Anvin" , Embedded Linux mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl. Message-ID: <20090114025115.GB22154@shareable.org> References: <495FEEAF.5020005@zytor.com> <200901032006.47652.rob@landley.net> <20090104030619.GA21466@linux-sh.org> <1231677939.3517.5.camel@gimli.at.home> <31014a580901111928u586e2246uccf370ff941c8a01@mail.gmail.com> <20090112053552.GA9061@uranus.ravnborg.org> <31014a580901112150x57cd715aj5f42ee19bc28c701@mail.gmail.com> <20090112101803.GB10086@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20090112103820.GF28564@linux-sh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090112103820.GF28564@linux-sh.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 715 Lines: 19 Paul Mundt wrote: > This happens in a lot of places, like embedded gentoo ports, where almost > all of the work is sent across distcc to a cross-compilation machine. In > systems that use package management, it is done on the host through > emulation, or painfully cross-compiled. Ah yes, I remember using embedded Gentoo. 95% of the time in ./configure scripts, 5% in compilations. And this is on x86! I dread to think how slow it gets on something slow. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/