From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 11:04:32 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] autoconf caching In-Reply-To: References: <20140605224222.0184a9b7@free-electrons.com> <20140606091548.53f07f90@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20140607110432.3e52d064@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Dallas Clement, On Fri, 6 Jun 2014 11:14:15 -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > Hi Thomas. Thanks very much for looking at my configuration. I think you > certainly nailed it. > I have a lot of packages, and perl and mysql especially are taking a long > time. My build recipes > for both of these are a year or two out of date. In fact, my perl recipe > is still using qemu to build > instead of perl cross. Hopefully updating this recipe will help some, > though as you pointed out > it is still using MAKE1. Right. I'll send a separate e-mail to Fran?ois Perrad about this (our Perl guy), because it seems like other build systems are building Perl in parallel. > Yep, very speedy SSDs and 64 GB for RAM. Because of all the serialization > in this build process, > building from a large ram disk seems to make little difference. Right. So you have a good build configuration, there's not much we can do here. > > There is another thing that strikes out in your configuration: there > > are many packages that we don't have in Buildroot, and that don't seem > > to be specific to your company or project. What about submitting your > > new packages upstream? > > Yes, I can certainly do that. There's a lot here. Much of it is obscure. > Please let me know which ones you are most > interested in. Could you make a list of the packages that you've added, and that are open-source? I'm pretty sure a majority of them could potentially be useful to have in Buildroot. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com