From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-11-27T05:47:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Rails on Gumstix

Dick Davies wrote:
> That said, they're perfectly able to compile stuff themselves -  storage
> more than memory is your limiting factor, so just use an NFS share.
They also have both ccache and distcc, so it's perfectly feasible to 
have a Gumstix compile farm. :)
>
> Alternatively, I had a lot of success cross-compiling ARM packages with
> the stuff from http://scratchbox.org
There are quite a few "open development toolchains" for the ARM. The 
Gumstix people use a heavily hacked and customized version of the 
uclibc/busybox/buildroot collection. I've only been doing this a couple 
of weeks, so I've only found maybe half a dozen bugs, most of which 
Gumstix inherited from the upstream source. But yes, in the long run, a 
better cross-development toolchain is a must. Since I have Gentoo, I'll 
most likely go with the Gentoo Embedded toolchain rather than trying to 
deal with yet another open source community. :)


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