From: J. Michael Diehl (mdiehl@triton.unm.edu)
Date: 09/16/92


From: mdiehl@triton.unm.edu (J. Michael Diehl)
Subject: Re: A Problem with _very_ slow kernel compiling
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 07:28:52 GMT

In article Kristo Kaarlo Matias <kkk@field.ichaos.nullnet.fi> writes:
>
>-486/50Mhz (DX2)
>-8 MB RAM (Goldstar 70ns SIMMs)
>-Trident 8900c or CVGA1024 (Western Digital chip set)
>-Morse VGAPlus SVGA-monitor
>-Toshiba 105MB ATID
>-Quantum 240MB ATID
>-3.5" HD floppy drive
>-SoundBlaster 1.0
>
>The problem is that compiling (make all) Linux 0.97pl5 source (from
>nic.funet.fi) takes about 25 minutes! Isn't this much too slow for
>486/50?!? I have tried this both under pl2 and pl5, compiler was GCC 2.2.2d.
>

QUIT BRAGGING! ;^]

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