On Monday 26 May 2003 5:51 pm, Benjamin Vander Jagt wrote: > Yay, the list is taking my messages again! > > This isn't really a Shrike related thing, but you guys seem pretty > knowledgeable... I just rebuilt all the SRPMS on a Gateway 9300 laptop > with a slow 12GB hard drive, 160MB RAM, and a P3 650 and on an Athlon XP > 1700+ with 512MB RAM, and a couple 80GB drives at 7200 RPM with 8MB > cache. The laptop took 2 days to rebuild, and the desktop system, if it > continues at it's current rate, will finish after about 6 days. It has > already taken 3 days. Of course, I refuse to thing that the P3 is > simply that good. :-p Is that normal? Is GLIBC slow with XP chips? > I'm not experienced enough to know if I ought to use specific switches > or anything. I'm using "rpmbuild --rebuild --nodeps --target=i686" on > the laptop and "rpmbuild --rebuild --nodeps --target=athlon" on the > desktop. Make sure a) hard disk DMA is enabled, and b) that you stop every service that you can. The stopping of services is to provide more memory to the builds and to keep other activities to a minimum. Also: shouldn't you have a "-O2" (or something) in amongst those compile switches?
