On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 08:58:45AM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > On 03/20/2012 08:24 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > >I think the speed of the build hardware should be also part of the criteria, > >as all primary architectures are built synchronously. GCC on x86_64/i686 > >currently builds often in 2 hours, sometimes in 4 hours if a slower or more > >busy box is chosen, but on ARM it regularly builds 2 days. That is a slow > >down factor of 12x-24x, guess for other larger packages it is similar. > > Our current build systems can turn GCC 4.7 around in about 24 hours. > The enterprise hardware we anticipate using will take that down to > about 12 hours. If speed of build hardware is a consideration, > where do you draw the line? Is cross-compilation a realistic option? In theory this would improve the speed of builds to something like the x86-64 speed. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
