Re: make readme (pkgsrc)

["Georges Heinesch" <geohei-ml%geohei.lu@localhost>]

Quoting Ignatios Souvatzis (10-May-01 21:34:24):

> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:18:09PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 07:13:49PM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote:
>> > Hi.
>> > 
>> > Is it "normal" that "make readme" inside /usr/pkgsrc takes days
>> > (!) on a A3000 with CSPPC 060/604 (50/233 MHz). I let it run for
>> > more than 2 days and interrupted it at /usr/pkgsrc/games.
>> > 
>> > What's so difficult in maiking README.html files?
>> > Is there possibly any Amiga related problem here?
>> > How can I make it faster?
>> 
>> Faster disk, I guess. Then, faster disk, and then, faster disk.
>> 
>> Of course, a 500 MHz CPU would help a bit, too.
>> 
>> Hubert, what are the times for faster machines?

> I've heard, about 8 hours on a 133 MHz PPC machine... thats with a
> fast disk;
> 80000 make calls (eighty thousand); that was a few months ago,
> nodwadays it would take longer.

off-topic ... just to conclude this thread ...

On my 450 MHz PIII, 2118 packages took 12:20 hours.

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