Admittedly we are at the “I hate broken things” stage of this project. The application itself will compile and run locally, but distcc used to work. As you can see, even the browse functionality works. At first I thought this was simply due to moldy posts on the Internet. Lots of posts say things like “current version of Linux” instead of the actual version they are using. For the record: roland@roland-desktop:~/piBuild/pitools/arm-bcm2708$ lsb_release -irc Distributor … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 10Read more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 9
I will begin this post by informing you not everything works yet. I’m including this post in the series because learning how to un-screw stuff is almost as important as learning how to do it right. In fact, it is probably more important. Configuring build environments has got to be my least favorite thing to do. As a consultant I typically don’t join a project until after someone else has already done that and created … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 9Read more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 8
This is where we begin to merge our discussion of distcc and the Raspberry Pi. The first thing I needed to do was actually get distcc installed on the Pi. Don’t forget the monitor so you can tell if things are working. I also created a ~/.distcc/hosts file. localhost roland-desktop roland-HP-Compaq-8100-Elite-SFF-PC After adding the previously mentioned make options to the project my out of the box attempt went like this: Notice the red bars? This … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 8Read more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 7
Originally I did a stupid thing. It was so stupid I made it the featured image for this post. I used the install/remove applications menu option to install postgresql and postgresql-contrib. Finding postgresql was like finding a needle in a haystack after using the search. The software manager for the Raspberry Pi doesn’t order by package name nor does it display that first. It displays the one-line human friendly description first and has a sort … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 7Read more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 3
The Sacrificial Lamb Eventually, if time allows, I will attempt to cross compile both programs to off-the-shelf Android and Raspberry Pi targets. You have already seem the Raspberry Pi target but for the Android target I chose the RCA Viking Pro as our sacrificial Lamb. Yes, it is a mortal sin to purchase anything from Walmart. Most likely I just enriched North Korea via China via Walmart somehow. I used this for several hours setting … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 3Read more