Re: How long to build from source?

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

On Fri, 8 May 2020, Benny Siegert wrote:

> The short answer: It depends.
>
> Slightly longer: Does the laptop have an SSD, an NVMe disk or a
> spinning hard drive? Which build options do you choose -- for
> instance, do you want to build X as well, do you want to build the
> graphics acceleration stuff (which requires building LLVM IIRC), etc.
> pp.

Add to the questions:

* How much RAM do you have?
* Where is your /tmp located?  tmpfs (in RAM)?  SSD?  spinning disk?

> I think it's going to be a couple hours. You could run the build
> overnight if you want.

If you're also building in-tree X11, you can add a couple more hours to 
the estimate!   :)


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