On Tue, 08 Nov 1994 21:59:09 -0500   "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com> wrote:
 > Completely agreed. However, this brings up an interesting question --
 > why is "make depend" so slow on NetBSD? Maybe its my imagination, but
 > I could swear that "make depend" takes many times longer on a NetBSD
 > machine than on a comparable BSDI 1.1 machine.

I have a customer that has a BSDI 1.1 machine and certainly it's true that
a 'make depend' is quite a bit faster on it... However, the big difference
is that this customer only has the binary distribution... Could it be
that this is also true in your case?