Re: chess

["David K. Trudgett" <dkt@registriesltd.com.au>]

On Monday 2001-10-29 at 11:15:54 +0000, James Troup wrote:

> Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> writes:
> 
> > Buildd tried building 'chess' this afternoon, and got hung up on it.
> > Can someone please try this?  I seem to remember it failing to build
> > before, too.
> 
> chess takes an insane amount of time to build even on very fast
> machines; I'd seriously consider ignoring it if I were you until the
> maintainer can be convinced not to do the book build on every single
> architecture.  YMMV

Last time I did it, it took something like two days to compile on a
Pentium 166 :-) That's gotta be some sort of record ;-)

David Trudgett