From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Feb 2 15:16:33 2010 Message-ID: <4B688799.40006@atari-source.org> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:14:17 -0500 From: Mark Duckworth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] Gentoo FreeMiNT References: <201002022206.51229.oak@helsinkinet.fi> In-Reply-To: <201002022206.51229.oak@helsinkinet.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On 2/2/10 3:06 PM, Eero Tamminen wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 02 February 2010, Miro Kropacek wrote: > >>> The Sparemint website is looking a bit stale with no package >>> updates in years and years. >>> >> You've replied to yourself ;-) >> >> One big trouble with RPMs is their are pain in ass to cross compile. >> Personally, I don't do a shot without cross compiler nowadays -- so many >> libraries to compile / test / recompile and so much time saved... >> > 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. Thanks, Mark