From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 27 20:38:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.viasoft.com.cn (unknown [61.153.1.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A3737B405; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:38:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from viasoft.com.cn (davidwnt.viasoft.com.cn [192.168.1.239]) by mail.viasoft.com.cn (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA18981; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:46:36 +0800 Message-ID: <3C2BF5C2.4060107@viasoft.com.cn> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:32:02 +0800 From: David Xu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross Lippert Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what a can of worms! (Gnome flames) References: <200112280353.TAA14076@eskimo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ross Lippert wrote: >Hey, I once tried to do a pure > make kde2 >from the ports and it took more than a day on a 300 Mhz. Granted it >was a 56k modem, but at least 80% of the time was in the compile. I >gave up and used the CD's. > this bacauses GCC does not support pre-compiling. if GCC can support Visual C++'s pre-compiling mode, whole compiler speed will scale up and save much time. -- David Xu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message