Re: PowerBook (FW) - hints and tips

[Olaf Grewe <ogrewe@wiwi.hu-berlin.de>]

>On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 7, 2000, Olaf Grewe <ogrewe@wiwi.hu-berlin.de> 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.

Thanks for any comments, it took me about 1h on my PB.

Olaf