>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take much longer, as subsequent builds should only build the out-of-date .o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).

Mike
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