<p dir="ltr">I remember compiling Thunderbird taking close to a day.. oh Gentoo. </p>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 25, 2016 11:20 PM, "Jim Kinney" <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr"></p>
<p dir="ltr">On Sep 25, 2016 9:01 AM, "Boris Borisov" <<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com" target="_blank">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 2 days? Not that I have compiled kernel recently.</p>
<p dir="ltr">My thoughts exactly. My last kernel compile was about a year ago and it took 15-20 minutes. That's about what it has always required over the years. Of course I got rid of that IBM PC Jr well over a decade ago :-)<br>
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> On Sep 23, 2016 4:36 PM, "leam hall" <<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamhall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> You can get a 1 year free AWS option too, as long as you stay small it won't cost.<br>
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>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Chris Fowler <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com" target="_blank">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> Is this a bad idea?<br>
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>>> I need to compile a 4.7.2 kernel for i586. The kernel config is copied from debian jessie with CONFIG_M586TSC=y.<br>
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>>> I don't have 2 days to wait. <br>
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>>> 1. Spin up a CentOS 6.X 32 bit guest at Digital Ocean with 8 cores and 16GB of ram. This is $0.25/ht<br>
>>> 2. Transfer linux-4.7.2.tar.xz and the config to it.<br>
>>> 3. Unpack, copy the config to .config, make, create package, and transfer back to the i586 hardware.<br>
>>> 4. Delete the guest. I only pay for the usage.<br>
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>>> I'm doing this on a Digital Ocean guest of lowest power. Only 0.007/hr. It is still taking a long time. <br>
>>> I need to build the same kernel, but for i586, i686, and x86_64. I have the configs ready to go. I'm also perfecting my packaging too so I may have to build a few times.<br>
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>>> I making assumptions based on my assumption that I can use 8 cores at 100% each for a couple hours. With Azure I can pay for a quarter core for testing under Winders.<br>
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