On Tuesday 09 December 2003 02:12, Sigurd Stordal wrote: > Well, I have just helped a friend of mine installing on an old slot a > athlon 750. compiling base took some hour, but we where at stage 3 after > about one day. Then took about 24 hour to compile kde, gnome and > openoffice. > > But then this is a very fast machine, It's strange, but it felt faster than > my old 1.33 Ghz athlon. > But I do not think you'll need more than 2-3 days to get a working system.
What??? That is strange. I have an Athlon 1800XP with 256MB RAM (but only a relatively slow 7600RPM hdd) and openoffice takes me about 12 hours to compile. kde also takes about 12 hours. gnome is quite good and only takes about 4 or 5 hours. X11 also takes about 2 to 3 hours. The base system also takes about 6 hours. Adding all that up gives 36 hours. On top of that my CFLAGS is "-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" so that cuts an hour or two off the total time that it would take to use "-O3". On top of that my USE flags begins with "-*" so that I don't get heaps of useless junk like fb and svga support cutting the number of packages. Your friend must have loads of fast RAM and a fast HDD to be able to compile all of that so quickly. Or maybe it's just that laptops suck?! ;-) Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
