John Burrell wrote: > I've just finished installing LFS-7.4-rc1 and building a > Gnome-3.9.90 alpha desktop on it. > > I thought you might like to see some actual build times for some of > the packages that take a little longer! > > Package unpack build build > (s) (s) (hrs) > > llvm 8 4387 1.22 > qt4 7 7443 2.07 > webkitgtk2 1 10877 3.02 > firefox 23 10033 2.79 > xulrunner 24 10477 2.91 > libreoffice 12 14821 4.12 > openjdk 229 6435 1.79 > > The unpack time for openjdk includes the download time for icedtea, etc (8 > packages). > > Two years ago I could go from disk partition to a Gnome desktop in 16 hrs. > > It's now taking nearly 18 hrs to build these 7 packages. This can > probably be reduced a little by optimizing the use of the cores, but > even so if you intend to continue building Linux from source, make > sure you get a hobby to pursue while you're waiting.
Reformatted it for you. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
