From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 14:38:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4833916A4CE for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:38:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from marvin.muc.de (marvin.muc.de [193.149.48.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F90D43D5A for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:38:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (qmail 25030 invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2004 14:38:01 -0000 Delivered-To: mods-muc-lists-freebsd-ports@moderators.muc.de Received: (qmail 25023 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2004 14:38:00 -0000 Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (134.173.32.75) by marvin.muc.de with SMTP; 13 Oct 2004 14:38:00 -0000 Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i9DEcjKh026378; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:38:45 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id i9DEciqR026377; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:38:44 -0700 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:38:44 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20041013143844.GA18223@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <2sveogF1oscf3U1@uni-berlin.de> <20041012154856.GA67791@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041012154856.GA67791@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:39:29 +0000 cc: Toyotoshy cc: muc-lists-freebsd-ports@moderators.muc.de Subject: Re: Atlas compilation X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:38:03 -0000 --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 08:48:56AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 03:05:20PM +0200, Toyotoshy wrote: > > Hallo evrybody, > > I'm just a newbie and I'm trying to compile /usr/ports/math/atlas > > Compilation started 6 hours ago and: > >=20 > > du /usr/ports/math/atlas > > .... > > 360160 /usr/ports/math/atlas > >=20 > > isn't it a bit too much time and space? >=20 > No, it's an enormous port. Depending on how slow your machine is, it > may take days to build, or it could be as little as 24 hours. Yes, not only does it do a lot of things, but since it is Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software, it actually compiles several versions of each function and runs microbenchmarks on them to determine which one to use. Ideally, you should build it when the system is nearly idle to avoid perturbing the results. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBbT30XY6L6fI4GtQRAm6HAJkB59NdHBQtOcFHIcewwwMia/12fACgytgG 3usnRfMMTXOxY9Kpn7vHGFM= =bKRV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp--