My Sunblade 100 takes almost 20 hours to build gcc with the machine's 500 MHz UltrSPARC-II processor and its 64-bit bus. So to build that software, I usually launch a batch process with the "batch" command. Bill > > Three full days to build gcc and its still running.. Does this seem excessive?? > Cygwin on XP @ 3GHz, nothing else running, web disconnected, idle processor. Are all unix installs like this? > -Ben > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Access Yahoo!7 Mail on your mobile. Anytime. Anywhere. > Show me how: http://au.mobile.yahoo.com/mail > > ________________________________________________________________ Please visit a saintly hero: http://www.jakemoore.org