Holy shit my kernel finished building it's been only 2 hours
I could do kernel upgrades during the daytime that took no time at all. I was expecting like up to 4 hours to build.
Show thread

@kirby @yakumo_izuru
Linux kernel is still relatively smol, GCC, CLang, QT, Firefox, WebKit or, god forbid, Chrome — this is the shit that takes forever to build.

@yakumo_izuru
Surprisingly, Rust itself takes relatively little time to build compared to Firefox 😂
It's build system is a mess, it even uses Node.js somehow so you can't build it natively on, for example 32-bit PowerPC.
Gladly, I have xbps-src that facilitates the process of rebuilding it: just throw the patched into a designated directory, set the vars and you can go get some tea — I would probably never figure out how to build it myself 🤪
@kirby

@m0xee @yakumo_izuru @kirby
>building firefox using xbps-src
>indicating knowledge of how the hell to use xbps-src
Please teach me your ways, no matter how much documentation I read up on it's so confusing ;_;
Follow

@Tadano @kirby @yakumo_izuru
Ha-ha-ha-ha, yeah! It might seem confusing at first, but since I had to cross-build Void from the ground up for an old arm netbook that only supported a subset of VFPV3 instruction set and I couldn't use prebuilt binaries as they were giving me SIGILL, it all started making sense to me 😂
I have a couple of supplementary guides bookmarked that helped me, but I don't have them on my phone. I'll send them to you when I get to my computers.

Sign in to participate in the conversation
Librem Social

Librem Social is an opt-in public network. Messages are shared under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license terms. Policy.

Stay safe. Please abide by our code of conduct.

(Source code)

image/svg+xml Librem Chat image/svg+xml