Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > You can try to look at 'top' output during linking phase and see what > happens. Note that John reported a libfrontends.a of size 120Mb, so > everything is possible.
It is definitely bloated. I have this problem since yesterday and the computer slows down incredibely on the linking phase (for about almost an hour, so that it is not even possible to move the mouse). Normally, compiling needs 1 minute to ten minutes (with a fresh checkout). Juergen.
