[sane-devel] Thoughts on compilation

[jim.george at blueyonder.co.uk]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 04:42:38PM +0000, jim.george at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> > However one comment you made worried me...compilation taking minutes
> > or seconds?  Mine ran for hours literaly 2-3 hours!  I have a Pentium
> > III with 288MB.
>
> Looks suspicous. I just tried with my Athlon 1.4:
> : cd sane-backends
> : make distclean
> : ./configure
> : time make
> real   3m27.477s
> user   2m46.220s
> sys    0m25.920s
>
> My Celeron 366 is slower, but the compilation time is also in the
> range of minutes. I tried a 486/66 with 8 MB of RAM some month ago.
> This took hours (if not days) :-)
>
> > 	What can be going wrong?
>
> Maybe a slow hard disc?
>
I think this is the problem too.  It's a long time since I ran fdisk so I'll try that
and also I know that my swap partition is far too large (2 GIG) so I'm going to resolve that at the same time.

> Bye,
>   Henning
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