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Subject: Re: how to speed up port make??
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org  Wed Jul 25 16:34:22 2012
> From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:31:14 -0400
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: how to speed up port make??
>
>
> 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
>
> 	<snort> 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 ....
>

A standard-techniques -build of just a custom kernel (FBSD 6) took me over 
TWENTY hours....

 

  On a 80486/dx2 with 64 megs of Ram.

 
I didn't even -think- about 'buildworld'.