From: anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi   
      
   Markus Robert Kessler  writes:   
      
   > And I can confirm that compiling from scratch is not as easy as it looked   
   > like. I tried to create a package for Mageia, based on the original   
   > tarball, but there are plenty of dependencies not visible during   
   > configure/make/makeinstall. It compiled and built, but the result was not   
   > funtional. Creating a new rpm out of that failed as well.   
      
   True, building can get hairy. I recently built MEGAcmd (sync tool for   
   mega.nz) for arm64 on my Pi (CM3+ which is the equivalent of a 3B+, so   
   quad core and 1 GB of RAM). Should be easy? But their whatsit build   
   thingy uses architecture based rules but didn't have a rule for   
   arm64. My fumbling with it went nowhere at first but I then managed to   
   somehow inelegantly force it to do arm64. Also they've gone this silly   
   OpenEmbedded kind of way that they want to download the source for and   
   build all dependencies for it. But that part actually worked out of the   
   box as the deps were much smaller than their actual code. Best part, all   
   the deps used other build systems that didn't need fiddling with.   
      
   Last but not least, 1 GB of RAM is a piddly amount these days. I added 2   
   GB of swap to get this to compile since 1 GB wasn't enough.   
      
   Setting up a VM or cross compilation for one app didn't feel like worth   
   doing.   
      
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