Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Compiling Linux

[Jelle De L. <sk...@ki...>]

On the appletv? And how long did this take?

Is there a tutorial somewhere on how you did it, because if this compile 
isn't over by morning something must be horribly wrong, right? Compiling 
so long for a few megabytes of kernel?

/Met vriendelijke groeten,/

*Jelle De Loecker*
Kipdola Studios - Tomberg



cyberdork33 schreef:
> A genkernel kernel that I just did recently 
> (kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.25-gentoo-r7) is 3.2MB and the initramfs 
> that goes along with it is 16MB.
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Jelle De Loecker <sk...@ki... 
> <mailto:sk...@ki...>> wrote:
>
>     Aww ..
>
>     Not even on the atv? How much space does it consume, anyway?
>     Because this genkernel has used like 1 megabyte the past few hours.
>
>
>     /Met vriendelijke groeten,/
>
>     *Jelle De Loecker*
>     Kipdola Studios - Tomberg
>
>
>     cyberdork33 schreef:
>>     I have never had a genkernel take nearly that long.
>>
>>     Jelle De Loecker wrote:
>>       
>>>     Well, I didn't read it ran up to 14 hours, but that compiling a kernel 
>>>     with all the modules and such took someone 14 hours.
>>>
>>>     Anyway, it's not really just a compile I'm doing, it's a genkernel 
>>>     (stage 3) and I did read that could take a long time. I just hate it 
>>>     that the wiki said nothing about this or that I'm getting no feedback 
>>>     whatsoever.
>>>
>>>     /Met vriendelijke groeten,/
>>>
>>>     *Jelle De Loecker*
>>>     Kipdola Studios - Tomberg
>>>
>>>
>>>     Sven Anders schreef:
>>>         
>>>>     Jelle De Loecker schrieb:
>>>>       
>>>>           
>>>>>     Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>>     I'm currently compiling the linux kernel on my AppleTV (I'm following
>>>>>     the Gentoo tutorial on MythTV's wiki) and I was just wondering how long
>>>>>     it would take.
>>>>>
>>>>>     I've read about long compiles, about 14 hours, on regular machines. I
>>>>>     know there's only 1 ghz in this machine but since it's a silent compile
>>>>>     and the only feedback I'm getting is from ps -x I got too curious.
>>>>>         
>>>>>             
>>>>     Where did you read 'up to 14 hours'?
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>           
>>>>>     It's been at it for 20 hours now. The script is still displaying
>>>>>     "building dependencies".
>>>>>     There seems to be a lot of activity according to ps -x, yet the disk
>>>>>     space usage stays the same.
>>>>>
>>>>>     So I got a bit worried. And yes, it's my first kernel-compile :)
>>>>>         
>>>>>             
>>>>     The compile time depends on the processor and the selected features,
>>>>     but on an 1GHz processor it should take longer than 2 hours
>>>>
>>>>     Some more info about build the linux kernel here:
>>>>
>>>>     http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html
>>>>
>>>>     Regards
>>>>      Sven
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>           
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