On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Philip Cheney <phi...@packwidth.net> wrote:
> So far, the only issue I've had building anything on arm is the speed > difference. The limited hardware really does take its toll: limited RAM, > extremely slow IO, heat issues with continuous high load on fanless > systems. Building the entire ports tree in one go is not representative of > most of this platform's use-cases, though. > In the last 72 hours, I've built 81 packages for 5.7, compiling pretty much continuously on my Beagle Bone Black. I haven't seen any crashes, errors, or problems (other than a couple of my own making/learning opportunities). But yes, it's very slow - python took something like 20 hours to build using the internal flash. But hey, that's why we have batch features in the shell. I wonder if this will be like painting the Golden Gate Bridge - if you start with the 5.7 release, by the time all the packages are built, 5.8 will be out :-)
