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Old 04-14-2012, 08:58 PM   #14
rkomar
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Originally Posted by tuxor View Post
You don't seem to have an idea of _how_ slow it really is. At the moment I'm trying to build qt embedded (with Q_WS_QWS) to prevent problems that occur when building pyside with Q_WS_X11, which is the version that comes with debian's qt4-x11.

At the moment "configure" is running. I started it half an hour ago! The actual build process might take a whole day or even longer...

Everything different from the versatile board seems to be rather hard to set up at the moment. No tutorials on the net that fit a noob like me...
I built ghostscript this way, so I _do_ have some idea of the speed. However, I almost cried in frustration when I saw what people were doing to get that software cross-compiled. Building in qemu may have been slow, but it took no effort after the development tools were added, and it finally just worked. I just went off and did something else in the meantime. The real question is, can you produce a faster system and build your software before the slow system does, and is it worth the effort if you only use it rarely? In my case, the answer was no.
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