Subject: Re: 1.5 Package on 1.5.1?
To: Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/09/2001 17:23:54
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Andy Ball wrote:
>
> Hello David!
>
> DB> If you are using pkgsrc you can just 'make package' in
> > the appropriate directory, then copy the binary
> > package(s) across to the other machine and 'pkg_add'
> > them.
>
> That sounds fairly straightforward. Do I have to do anything
> to prevent the compiler from optimising for the chip it's
> compiled on (rather than the target chip)?
>
Unless you tell it otherwise it will compile for the chip family
- 386 to P4 will all compile the same binary package.
> DB> I've compiled up apache and postgresql on an 8MB 386,
> > running diskless (don't ask), so its really only the
> > disk space issue that keeps your 486 from building
> > itself :)
>
> I imagine that took a wee while. The 486 machine's disk
> situation is a lot better now than it was, the secondary ATA
> disk seems to have about 150Mb of space, none of which is
> used at present. It isn't necessarily mounted where it could
> be of most use, but that's probably fixable.
I have to admin I wasn't in a hurry :)
You probably want to look at a custom kernel when you have some
time - to squeeze some more out of the machine.
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