From: Joel M. Hoffman (joel@wam.umd.edu)
Date: 09/07/92


From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Re: No patchlevel 3.
Date: 8 Sep 1992 00:21:47 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.215429.7866@umr.edu> dminer@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Dan Miner) writes:
>wait a little (~100K? for that one). Now, I got pl4 and ready for
>an all night compile (it takes over 5 hrs on my machine.. :( )
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Along the lines of my last questions, about the progress of Linux over
the Summer, I've been seeing a lot of this (5 hours to recompile
kernel). Is this because the kernel is bigger and GCC slower than
they were when we had 0.96, or are the auth}rs just running slow
machines? I seem to recall about 15 minutes for a recompilation.

BTW, I've gotten several responses about what's new. Thank you. The
only question still un-answered was about my patches to selectively
allow foreign char. sets on VC's. No one seems to know anyone about
them, so I guess a) I'm the only one who ever used them, and b)
they're not in the new kernel.

-Joel
(joel@wam.umd.edu)