Subject: Re: Compiling the kernel on low-memory machine
To: Aymeric Vincent <Aymeric.Vincent@labri.fr>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/03/2002 16:50:20
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 04:38:56PM +0100, Aymeric Vincent wrote:

> While compiling a -current kernel on my Amiga 1200 with 8MB of RAM, I
> noticed that files including sys/syscallargs.h take very long to
> compile, because they cause cc1 to swap a lot.

Probably the number of people compiling kernels on such machines has
decreased significantly since we have this cool cross compile framework.

Which does not mean we shouldn't help them, but the incentive is probably
not very high.

Martin