Same here. I would love to give it a try.

Bryan

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:29:15PM -0400, Joshua Coombs wrote:
> Give me instructions and I'll setup a 68k / x86 combo that should be
> up to the task.
> 
> Josh C
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Claudio Leite" <leitec@leitec.org>
> To: <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:52 PM
> Subject: Possible solution for package compiles
> 
> 
> >
> > Hello again,
> >
> >  I got the idea yesterday to set up a cross-compile environment on
> my Linux
> > machine (an old PII 300mhz laptop) for m68k-netbsdelf and use
> distcc to
> > off-load the compiling tasks from my mac68k box.
> >
> > Here are some results from compiling my library "imcomm", which
> has some nasty
> > code.
> >
> > % time make CC=distcc
> > <snip>
> > 32.7u 8.6s 1:20.13 51.6% 0+0k 27+87io 103pf+0w
> >
> > % time make CC=gcc
> > <snip>
> > 108.6u 10.2s 2:15.86 87.5% 0+0k 2+102io 62pf+0w
> >
> > Tomorrow I'll set up my P4 machine, too, and make a
> howto/walkthrough. With
> > two machines (including a much faster one, the P4) doing compiles,
> I should be
> > able to get some speedy compiles. FYI, as far as I know, distcc
> does
> > pre-processing and linking on the host machine and offloads only
> the actual
> > compilation part, so libraries and header files do not need to be
> present on
> > the cross-compiler. I had to copy /usr/include, libc.* and crt*.o
> from my Mac
> > to get gcc to compile, nothing more.
> >
> > Unfortunately I do not have enough space to untar pkgsrc. Is
> anyone up for
> > trying this? This could really help with pkgsrc building.
> >
> > distcc: http://distcc.samba.org/
> >
> > -Claudio
> > -- 
> > Claudio Leite
> > - http://leitec.org/
> > - http://staticky.com/
> >
> >
> 
>