Bill McEnaney wrote: > 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 >> It took about 7 hrs to build gcc with configure --enable-languages='c c++ fortran' --disable-shared... with make -j 2 on my 2Ghz core 2 laptop, with McAfee firewall. It's about an hour on my Pentium D XPSP3 with make -j 4, clamav but no firewall. No way do you want to build other languages if you care about time. Testsuite takes about 2 days on the Pentium D.
