Re: Compilation questions

[curzon dax <killer_buddha%yahoo.com@localhost>]

Leonardo Taccari wrote:
> 
> 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
> -- 
>  Leonardo Taccari | http://leot.altervista.org/
> 
> 

Both answers were exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot!

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