Re: current long build time

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2019, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am in the process updating (thus to test) my laptop (HP620 - dual core 
> amd64) to current.
>
> My first attempt failed, in userland because I used "-u" flag and clearly 
> something broke.
>
> Now I went the "Long" route
>
> 1) build tools, build kernel
>
> 2) reboot new kernel (works!)
>
> 3) rebuild tools to match kernel
>
> 4) build & install modules
>
> 5) build userland (-U -x)
>
>
> I notice that 5) is running since yesterday evening, almost 24hrs now - I was 
> accustomed to it to finish in a couple of hours, usually I was able to update 
> during business hours. Is this expected, like are we compiling lots of new 
> stuff... or is something going wrong that considerably slows down the 
> process.

If you are building in-tree X then we are now building a bunch of LLVM 
stuff (needed for the new mesa).  It takes a LONG time to build.



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