Re: [Libphidget-devel] Gentoo

[Jack S. <js...@ja...>]

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 23:53, Vadim Tkachenko wrote:
> According to Jack Strohm:
> 
> > I tested it on my Gentoo box
> 
> What's Gentoo? Distribution?

Source based distro, it's pretty cool, compiles exactly want you want. 
It's pretty slow to install.  On my Pentium 266 laptop it took about 24
hours, (I didn't use any binaries, complete source install).  Most of
that was compiling the compiler.  Kernel rebuilds take about 2 hours,
but I think I get everything the way I like it   

Nice thing is that I complete control the configuration.  For example if
you want vim installed in Mandrake you have to install X also.  This is
because the vim package also contains the gvim (gui version of VI).  Now
I told Gento not to compile any X packages so when vim was being
configured it took note of that and didn't create gvim, very cool!. 
Best thing is that on this little box with only 64MB of ram, my apps and
OS only take up 14 megs on bootup.  This is the box that is going to be
used in my robot I'm building.  Want it as lightweight as possible.

> 
> > and it configured and compiles without any problems.  Haven't actually run
> > it yet, have to hook up my phidgets to it.  Maybe tomorrow I will.
> 
> Have you tried to 'make rpm' and install the rpm?

nope, not yet, I'm about to go to sleep, but I'll try it tomorrow on a
box at work running Mandrake, see how it goes