Re: [Gumstix-users] OS X build failed

[Dave S. <da...@sm...>]

Darren Gibbs wrote:

>
> On Mar 30, 2005, at 5:55 PM, Craig R Hughes wrote:
>
>> Darren Gibbs wrote:
>> DG> Have you found that building the system is absurdly slow on Mac OS X
>> DG> compared with x86 Linux?  I would have thought a 1.5GHz G4 would
>> be in the
>> DG> same ballpark as a 1.4GHz Centrino.
>>
>> Yeah, it's hugely slower on my 1.25Ghz pb than on my admittedly much
>> beefier
>> opteron desktop.  I think the main difference is the low-speed HD in the
>> powerbook though versus my 10k RPM RAID in the opteron box.
>
>
> I wonder if that really is the difference.  I'm comparing a Dell
> Inspiron and a Powerbook G4 with similar hardware configs.  Not only
> was the Mac WAY slower, but I found that many of the gumstix binaries
> are larger when built on the Mac.  My root_fs_arm was more than 1MB
> bigger on the Mac.  I thought maybe the difference was 2.6.10 v.s.
> 2.6.11 but I did an 'ls -lR' on the build_arm/root directories on
> Linux and OS X and started poking through.  Many of the non-kernel
> binaries are exactly the same size, but others are 50-100% larger. 
> Any idea what might cause that?


I think that the calls to "strip" to get rid of debug info are generally
failing due to GNUist parameters.  This is a guess based on a few
instances I've seen wizz by.  My 512Mb 1GHz G4 PowerBook would do a full
build in about 1.5 hours the last time I timed it.

Regards,
Dave