Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:39:19 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD? Message-ID: <43E340E7.1080507@cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <200602030257.27685.kstewart@owt.com> References: <43E2E2F1.70206@u.washington.edu> <43E2F43B.1000303@u.washington.edu> <43E30BDD.9090005@cs.tu-berlin.de> <200602030257.27685.kstewart@owt.com>
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Kent Stewart schrieb: > On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:53, Björn König wrote: > >>The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile >>all in all because of its modularity. A German magazine tested both: >>6.9 took 19 minutes and 7.0 75 minutes on their dual Opteron 246 >>machine with 2 GB RAM (source: iX 1/2006). > > Differences like that usually point out a poor interaction between the > files and the make process. [...] As far as I know they use the wide spreaded tools automake, autoconf, libtool and pkgconfig to prepare the build process. I'm sure most users noticed that executing ./configure takes a lot of time in many cases. It may be that 7.0 takes so much time because it is frequently testing whether strlen() exists or not. :-P Björn
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