[Nix-dev] Using a remote machine for builds with two NixOS machines.

[Jonathan Glines]

2015-09-30 14:09 GMT-06:00 Jonathan Glines <auntieneo at gmail.com>:
> 2015-09-30 13:31 GMT-06:00  <roconnor at theorem.ca>:
>> I have a slow laptop that needs a custom kernel.  It usually takes
>> overnight to recompile a kernel, so to combat this, I've recently set up
>> my laptop to use my desktop to perform builds.
>
> I did this for a short time, but I ran into a problem where my
> Sandybridge desktop was compiling AVR instructions that my AMD netbook
> did not understand. This was troublesome for the few packages I
> compiled all the time (Asterisk, VirtualBox), but I was also worried
> that AVR instructions would sneak into other packages, so I stopped
> using this.
>
> I didn't have time to look into it at the time, but if someone knows
> how Hydra avoids this problem (is it even using chips with AVR
> instructions?) I would be very happy to hear about it. I tried adding
> a few flags to gcc-wrapper (without messing with Asterisk's build
> system) to try and convince it that using AVR instructions was bad,
> but I never got it working.
>
> I am very interested in this new documentation. I might try this again.

Sorry I meant AVX not AVR.