From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 25 21:31:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAEFD106566B for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:31:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C2A68FC0A for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mr17.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.37]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 25 Jul 2012 17:31:16 -0400 Received: from smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.104]) by mr17.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 4.3.4-GA) with ESMTP id BPI15374; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:31:15 -0400 Received: from 209-6-86-84.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.86.84]) by smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 25 Jul 2012 17:31:16 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <20496.26018.991325.60664@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:31:14 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <201207251911.q6PJBomF090264@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201207251911.q6PJBomF090264@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr17.lnh.mail.rcn.net) Subject: Re: how to speed up port make?? 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: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:31:17 -0000 Anton Shterenlikht writes: > >> i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, > >> compiling xorg takes about 2 hours > > 2 hours only?? > > Try lang/gcc46 or 47 > or science/paraview I beiieve the winner is OpenOffice and its kindred; still compiling after 2.75 hours on 4x3ghz and 8gbytes memory. The various Javas also take a while .... Robert Huff