On 7 December 2011 15:23, Robert Jones wrote: > Am I correct in believing that snapshots include everything for all > supported languages, rather than > the just the core & g++ bits I've built before? And consequently > building snapshots takes a while? If you build everything yes. Also relevant, by default snapshots build with lots of internal checks enabled, which makes GCC slower. Those checks are disabled for release builds. See the --enable-checking configure option for details, --enable-checking=release to build the same way as releases are built. > Is there anyway to download and build just those bits I'm interested > in, as I would for a release? No, you have to download the whole lot, but you can configure with --enable-languages=c,c++ to avoid building what you don't care about (also consider --disable-libquadmath if not using fortran, and --disable-libmudflap and --disable-libitm if you don't want to use those features) You can also speed up builds by using --disable-bootstrap All of this is in the installation docs, which you read before asking this, right?
