Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
A few things you could try adding to make.conf: FORCE_MAKE_JOBS=yes MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=4 I'm not sure this is supported on a _single_ core Pentium 4 CPU (or will gain speed if it was emulated). MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=2 make sense - one process I/O may overlap with other compute

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-27 Thread David Naylor
On Friday, 27 July 2012 09:22:52 Wojciech Puchar wrote: A few things you could try adding to make.conf: FORCE_MAKE_JOBS=yes MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=4 I'm not sure this is supported on a _single_ core Pentium 4 CPU (or will gain speed if it was emulated). MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=2 make sense -

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-26 Thread Ryan Noll
Hello, On Jul 25, 2012 7:34 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: You kids have got it easy. I used to have to compile by hand with a pair of tweezers, bar copper wire, a magnifying glass, and a potato with two pieces of metal stuck in it as a power source. Ha-ha... Ah those were the

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-26 Thread Doug Hardie
On 25 July 2012, at 23:04, Ryan Noll wrote: Hello, On Jul 25, 2012 7:34 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: You kids have got it easy. I used to have to compile by hand with a pair of tweezers, bar copper wire, a magnifying glass, and a potato with two pieces of metal stuck in it

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-26 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Mr U wrote: is it possible to speed up port make ?? i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, compiling xorg takes about 2 hours 1. You can use devel/ccache to cache compiled data. This way when you are compiling anything for a second time you'll get a big speed boost.

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
2. Try switching to clang, it has lower memory requirements and compilation this is simply not true. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-26 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Wojciech Puchar wrote: 2. Try switching to clang, it has lower memory requirements and compilation this is simply not true. This is simply not the point. Let's not start it again. The question was clearly about compilation speed where clang

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-26 Thread Reko Turja
-Original Message- From: Reko Turja Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:12 PM To: Wojciech Puchar Subject: Re: how to speed up port make?? -Original Message- From: Wojciech Puchar 2. Try switching to clang, it has lower memory requirements and compilation

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-26 Thread David Naylor
On Wednesday, 25 July 2012 17:02:37 Mr U wrote: hi is it possible to speed up port make ?? i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, compiling xorg takes about 2 hours A few things you could try adding to make.conf: FORCE_MAKE_JOBS=yes MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=4 Also, you

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:04:27PM -0700, Ryan Noll wrote: Hello, On Jul 25, 2012 7:34 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: You kids have got it easy. I used to have to compile by hand with a pair of tweezers, bar copper wire, a magnifying glass, and a potato with two pieces of

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-26 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:36:18 +0200, David Naylor wrote: On Wednesday, 25 July 2012 17:02:37 Mr U wrote: hi is it possible to speed up port make ?? i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, compiling xorg takes about 2 hours A few things you could try adding to

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Ryan Noll wrote: Does anyone else remember The Complete FreeBSD? I'm looking right at it on the shelf here. Second Edition - over 1750 pages!. It is *bristling* with post-it notes used as bookmarks. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org **

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Brian W.
You could use pkg_add -r xorg to get it and all of its dependencies installed. I usually use that, in combination with ccache to speed up compiles called by portupgrade. Brian On Jul 25, 2012 8:38 AM, Mr U mru...@yahoo.com wrote: hi is it possible to speed up port make ?? i want to install

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is it possible to speed up port make ?? i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, compiling xorg takes about 2 hours Humorous answer: Yes - get a more powerful computer. Robert Huff real answer - get binary packages.

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
is it possible to speed up port make ?? i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, compiling xorg takes about 2 hours 2 hours only?? Try lang/gcc46 or 47 or science/paraview This will keep your electronic helper busy for a day.

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:11:50PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: is it possible to speed up port make ?? i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, compiling xorg takes about 2 hours 2 hours only?? Try lang/gcc46 or 47 or science/paraview

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Robert Huff
Anton Shterenlikht writes: i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, compiling xorg takes about 2 hours 2 hours only?? Try lang/gcc46 or 47 or science/paraview snort I beiieve the winner is OpenOffice and its kindred; still compiling

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com writes: Mr U writes: is it possible to speed up port make ?? i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, compiling xorg takes about 2 hours Humorous answer: Yes - get a more powerful computer. or even just build on a more

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:02:37 -0700 (PDT), Mr U wrote: hi is it possible to speed up port make ?? i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, compiling xorg takes about 2 hours That's a fully normal make time on such a system. I've been experiencing it on FreeBSD 5 and 7

RE: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
25, 2012 6:54 PM To: Mr U Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd org Subject: Re: how to speed up port make?? On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:02:37 -0700 (PDT), Mr U wrote: hi is it possible to speed up port make ?? i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, compiling xorg takes about 2

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:59:56 -0400, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Got you beat. Compiled world on a 100MHz Pentium with 40 MB of RAM. I think I can: FreeBSD 4 on a Pentium 1 with 64 MB EDO RAM. The make buildworld took 24 hours. The kernel itself, if I remember correctly, required 3-5 hours, of course

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jul 25 16:34:22 2012 From: Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:31:14 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to speed up port make?? Anton Shterenlikht writes: i want to install openbox and xorg

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:41:15PM -0400, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 01:06:33AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:59:56 -0400, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Got you beat. Compiled world on a 100MHz Pentium with 40 MB of RAM. I think I can: FreeBSD 4 on a

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:33:36PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: You kids have got it easy. I used to have to compile by hand with a pair of tweezers, bar copper wire, a magnifying glass, and a potato with two pieces of metal stuck in it as a power source. s/bar/bare/ Now let me tell you