Re: [MiNT] GCC slowness

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 11:29 +0100, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > It takes 3 days to compile GCC 4.5.2 with the multilib setup we
> > have. Everything else is cheap and compiles pretty quickly.
> 
> Wow, I complain because Cygwin is slow, but there are much slower 
> systems =-O
> 
> You (and Keith and others) should be given a medal for compiling stuff 
> in such conditions.
> Fortunately, you have a clean MiNT patch which works out of the box :-)

Not quite. There are some additional patches I have that you don't for
Gentoo :-)

> One question: do you suffer from the malloc() bug on Gentoo when running 
> such long compilations ?

Actually, I'm sure I've fixed some malloc problems. It's probably still
sitting in my local mintlib sources with a bunch of other stuff in
testing :-)

Alan.