-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/07 04:42, Kolbjørn Barmen wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Thomas Weber wrote: >>> the current Octaviz packages build around 1000 object files from C++ >>> code. This takes about an hour on my 3GHz machine and I think you know >>> better than I what that means for m68k buildds. >>> >>> Now, I would like to change the build system such that the .cc files are >>> concatenated and only about 10 object files are built. On my current >>> system, this halves the build time. The problem is that memory >>> requirements go through the roof (I think you need more than 500 MB >>> Ram). >>> >>> So, the question is simple: would this change help you or actually make >>> things worse for smaller buildds? >> IMHO it will make things worse. Time is infinite, RAM is finite (it can be >> traded off by swap, i.e. time again, though). >> >> BTW, can't you speed up builds on machines with lots of memory by using >> `make -j N'? > > Silly question perhaps, but why would anyone want Octaviz on m68k? :) > I assume it is http://octaviz.sourceforge.net/ ?
For the same reasons "they" want all of the other big/hoggy packages that now build on mc68k. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHBMgbS9HxQb37XmcRAn2YAJ0V+botaOs5sZb8tBad5zpTsmRAjACgygwl vZ5E0H9ltGVs7ddIrBGjHXE= =YK2d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
