David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> writes:
> 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]
Agreed. While natively working would be nice, running the pbulk master
on a big-memory box and using the native ones to acutally do builds
sounds good. Then one could distcc to cross-compile, and eventually
make more of pkgsrc crossbuildable.
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