Re: Thoughts about bringing back old bulk build system

To: John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost>,tech-pkg%netbsd.org@localhost,John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost>,tech-pkg%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: Thoughts about bringing back old bulk build system
From: David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 18:47:09 +0100


On 7 August 2015 18:26:49 BST, John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The old mk/bulk/build code was removed in favor of pbulk. However,
>pbulk 
>is unusable on systems which have less than 512 megs of memory.
>Therefore, 
>I'd like to get feedback about ways to practically run bulk builds on
>more 
>modest architectures (VAX, m68k, sh3, perhaps MIPS certain and SPARC).
>
>Would bringing mk/bulk/build back be best? Does anyone have any other 
>thoughts or suggestions?

Discussions keep returning to cross building. It seems it would be a nice to be able to at least run pbulk on a fast box and remote shell for ~everything to native build box{,es]

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