From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 3 11:39:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5525916A420 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:39:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from efacilitas.de (smtp.efacilitas.de [85.10.196.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4937543D75 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:39:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from eurystheus.local (port-212-202-39-189.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.39.189]) by efacilitas.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1157E4C792; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 12:48:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.13] (unknown [192.168.1.13]) by eurystheus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA4315285D; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 12:37:45 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43E340E7.1080507@cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:39:19 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kent Stewart References: <43E2E2F1.70206@u.washington.edu> <43E2F43B.1000303@u.washington.edu> <43E30BDD.9090005@cs.tu-berlin.de> <200602030257.27685.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200602030257.27685.kstewart@owt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Garrett Cooper , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:39:09 -0000 Kent Stewart schrieb: > On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:53, Björn König wrote: > >>The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile >>all in all because of its modularity. A German magazine tested both: >>6.9 took 19 minutes and 7.0 75 minutes on their dual Opteron 246 >>machine with 2 GB RAM (source: iX 1/2006). > > Differences like that usually point out a poor interaction between the > files and the make process. [...] As far as I know they use the wide spreaded tools automake, autoconf, libtool and pkgconfig to prepare the build process. I'm sure most users noticed that executing ./configure takes a lot of time in many cases. It may be that 7.0 takes so much time because it is frequently testing whether strlen() exists or not. :-P Björn