24 Oct
2007
24 Oct
'07
2:38 a.m.
Richard wrote:
Sridhar Ayengar writes:
Well, in the (my) case of the SE/30 taking two days to compile a NetBSD 1.5
kernel, it definitely was just the kernel. Other stuff would have come later.
Granted, it may have been less than 48 hours, like starting early one evening
and ending late the next morning, but in my memory it was two days until it
upped and died when nearly done. I also suspect it might have been (a lot)
faster had the machine been equipped with the full 128 MB RAM at the time,
instead of just a paltry 20 MB. Might have saved the (500 MB) drive, too. :-)
In any case, it was done just for shits and giggles, and if anything it did
inspire a whole new level of appreciation for the art of cross-compilation.
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My compile on the VAXstation 2000 was at least a
few days. Maybe a week.
Are we talking *just* the kernel here, or are we talking compiling a
full distribution (all the utility programs, shell programs, X server,
X clients, etc.).
I have a really hard time believing it takes a few days *just* to
compile the kernel. Toss in the huge pile of additional programs
accessible from the shell or the X Window System and now we're talking
believable.