On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Rob Windsor wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I came from a world of PeeSeas and Sparcs, and happened across some Mac
>IIci's that were on their way to the trashcan.  I set one up to be my
>dialup box (IPNAT and pppd) since I heard that their serial ports can
>actually do 33.6k (or better on a good day), which the Sun serial ports
>cannot do.
>
>I decided to compile a custom kernel, and to my surprise, this thing takes
>well over an hour to put one together, possibly over two hours.  I didn't
>note the time at which this compile started (which is still going, btw),
>and I'm not about to stop it just so that I can time(1) it.
>
>Is this normal for a IIci?  My Sparc IPX `only' takes ~45 mins to compile
>a kernel of equiv size as this, and I thought _that_ was tf-slow.

Actually the compile speed isn't to terribly bad, it's the making
of the dependencies that takes for ever.  This is, I believe, a function
of the speed of disk access.  In any case yes it is normal for a kernel
build to take serveral hours.

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