Stonent wrote:hamei wrote:zizban wrote: A pain ain't the half of it. I takes nearly a day for on mac OS X and it has to have its hand held the whole time.
Probably an urban myth but I remember hearing something about a full day on an 8 processor Origin in Irix .... yuck !
I wonder if they were building with -j8 ?
I'd hate to think that make was running serial jobs rather than parallel on an 8-way system.
they used jobserver options of course.
also see my second post here: viewtopic.php?t=7644
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