On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 08:06:19AM -0500, David wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am trying to build gcc 4.1.1 on an OLD laptop that I have. It's been > taking days for this to work (I need it so I can build the driver wrapper for > my wireless card). it seems to hang when it tries to build insn-attrtab.o > during the stage 2 build. [cut] > Is this file known to take a long time to compile? am I missing something? For GCC 4.2, it compiles in under 5 minutes on a 233 MHz Pentium2 with 128 MB of RAM during stage one using gcc (GCC) 4.1.0 20060304 (Red Hat 4.1.0-3) -O1 to bootstrap. During stage two, it takes nearly 30 minues. The working set appears to top at about 95 MB. -- Rask Ingemann Lambertsen