Subject: Re: config dies on kernel build
To: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@prez.org>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/04/1999 10:31:12
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Michael G. Schabert wrote:

> >On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> >
> >> I timed config at roughly 3 minutes, make depend at 10 minutes, and make
> >> all at about 9 hours.  This on my Quadra 650 24/700.
> >
> >That's odd. When I was running NetBSD on my Quadra 630, building a
> >custom kernel took less than an hour and a half, a GENERIC a little
> >longer. It has 36M, but it barely touched the swap doing a "make
> >build" under X, and never for building kernels. I'm at a loss to
> >explain the different results.
> 
> Was this on an INITIAL kernel build, or on updates? Initial builds
> will take much longer, as subsequent builds should only build the
> out-of-date .o files & link 'em all together. Make build, on the
> other hand defaults to a clean build every time (unless you change
> your mk options).

"make clean && make depend && make". "make depend" takes up to 1/2 an
hour, "make" about an hour. It's not really any faster on the Quadra
840AV, maybe 15min altogether. "make build" in /usr/src/ takes about
24hrs, but we're talking about building kernels, aren't we?