Re: Compilation questions

[Leonardo Taccari <leonardo1990%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello Curzon!

On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 07:13:26AM -0800, curzon dax wrote:
> Still very pleased with NetBSD. Thanks for giving me a stable box.
You will like it more and more! :-)

> Now on to my question: I migrated to NetBSD from Gentoo a while back now,
> and in Gentoo it was possible to compile everything (meaning kernel,
> packages etc) in RAM. Is there such a provision in NetBSD, and if there is,
> how do I go about it? (Or if it's documented anywhere, could you please
> point me in the right direction?)
Mmmh, i didn't understand well your question... do you mean that you'd
like to use the ram as WRKOBJDIR[0]?
in order to do that (i'm using this example everyday on my Eee PC 900
with NetBSD 5.0.1: its SSD is pretty slow and this configuration speed
up the compilation a lot) you need for example mount /tmp as tmpfs[1]
(in this case I use 256MB, 1GB of ram for me is a lot :-)):

/etc/fstab:

 [...]
 tmpfs     /tmp     tmpfs   rw,-s256M
 [...]

and also:

/etc/mk.conf:

 [...]
 WRKOBJDIR= /tmp
 [...]

that's all.


 [0]: 
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/configuring.html#variables-affecting-build
 [1]: http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?mount_tmpfs++NetBSD-current


Hope this helps and enjoy NetBSD Curzon!


Ciao, Leonardo
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