IIRC, the first build has to set up a bunch of stuff. After that,
those items are already there (unless, I believe, you do a "make clean"
after the build), so the next build goes quicker.
	If I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will correct me :-)

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! -----Original Message-----
! From: linc [mailto:linc@thelinuxlink.net]
! Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 1:30 PM
! To: Brian Hechinger
! Cc: Dave McGuire; port-alpha@netbsd.org
! Subject: Re: HELP!
! 
! 
! On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:
! 
! > i'll stop being lazy and research it.  i'll build you a new 
! kernel tonight.
! > (you want a benchmark linc? that thing builds a kernel like 
! a bat out of hell)
! > 
! > -brian
! 
! That's what I don't get...  The first kernal build took a couple
! hours..  The last couple took like 5 minutes.  What the heck 
! did you do
! differently?
! 
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