[rescue] Re: [SunHELP] Solaris 9, First thoughts

Chris Terwilliger chris at searat.com
Sat Jan 19 23:06:10 CST 2002


> > The problem there is you'll need to give the programmers a super-fast
> > cross-compile machine on which they can only build, never run and test,
> > their programs (and of course at the same time make it easy for them to
> > build on the fast machine, and test on the slow machine).

You should see how we write software for cell phones...
We use a build cluster of HP-UX boxes, gcc, and source in Clearcase.
Then we download an image to our little embedded 4 MIP device over a 115K
serial link.
Builds take 15 - 60 minutes depending on the load, great fun...

Chris



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