On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 7, 2000, Olaf Grewe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Is recompiling XFree86 4 really that straightforward? The only things I
> >ever compiled needed only make/make install.
>
> XFree needs
>
> make World
> -- have a cup of coffee
> -- have another once
> -- get some rest
> -- watch TV
>
> and eventually, if it have finished before universe ends,
Nah, ever compiled XFree86 on a 25 MHz 68040? That's about 18 hours. I once
compiled X on a Sun-3/50 under SunOS, which was surprisingly fast because Sun's
cc compiled much faster than gcc.
> make install
and make install.man for the manpages.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
