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Re: gcc builds for 5 hrs...


Thanks Lewin.
But is it that important to have a NTFS partition..?? No other way..??
Even my eCos build takes that much time..!!

-Usmamih.

>From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe@larwe.com>
>To: "Usmamih Rahkes" <usmamih@hotmail.com>, ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
>Subject: Re: [ECOS] gcc builds for 5 hrs...
>Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 14:05:15 -0400
>
>
>>the build is dead slow. It took almost 5 hrs to build the gcc itself.
>>Could anyone tell me a way out..??
>
>That does seem a bit longer than I'm used to (it takes me about half that
>time on a Pentium III 600MHz/128Mb RAM/Win2000, NTFS volume); are you maybe
>trying to build on a FAT volume?
>
>As Jonathan humorously pointed out to you, building under cygwin is slower
>- much slower - than building under Linux. It seems that every time a tool
>(e.g. gcc) exits, one or more DLLs get unloaded and need to be reloaded for
>the next tool. Sloworama.
>
>
>-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards
>Embedded Engineer, Digi-Frame Inc.
>Work: http://www.digi-frame.com/
>Tel (914) 937-4090 9am-6:30pm M-F ET
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>
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>though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who
>neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight
>that knows not victory nor defeat."
>(Theodore Roosevelt)
>

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