From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 18:55:56 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 4D40216A4CE for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:55:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from marvin.muc.de (marvin.muc.de [193.149.48.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86A4943D5D for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:55:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: (qmail 46313 invoked by alias); 13 Oct 2004 18:55:54 -0000 Delivered-To: mods-muc-lists-freebsd-ports@moderators.muc.de Received: (qmail 46306 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2004 18:55:54 -0000 Received: from cpe0050040655c8-cm00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com (HELO obsecurity.dyndns.org) (69.194.102.143) by marvin.muc.de with SMTP; 13 Oct 2004 18:55:54 -0000 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BA4BC52BF8; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:55:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:55:52 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Brooks Davis Message-ID: <20041013185552.GA91705@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <2sveogF1oscf3U1@uni-berlin.de> <20041012154856.GA67791@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041013143844.GA18223@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20041013165408.GA35673@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041013172139.GA12693@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041013172139.GA12693@odin.ac.hmc.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:39:30 +0000 cc: Toyotoshy cc: muc-lists-freebsd-ports@moderators.muc.de cc: Kris Kennaway 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 18:55:56 -0000 --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:21:39AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:54:09AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:38:44AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > 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. > > >=20 > > > 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. > >=20 > > Hmm, that probably means the package is useless, right? >=20 > Not entirely given the build time, but certainly if you want to use it > seriously, the package isn't all that useful. *grumble* The build time is what annoys me too since it's longer than the build time for the entire rest of the package collection (modulo openoffice) :) Kris --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBbXo4Wry0BWjoQKURAl3eAJ9+0S39Lkqn6He6YAKHMC4vXjmVsQCgln+k tTY9VZOyZuWIOuB3sUXEsRI= =lNrF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH--