Dan Kegel wrote:
So how long does it take *you* to do a clean build (just the 'make' part after 'make depend', say) of Wine-20021125?
OK, got some numbers building 20021125 on my home machines:
30min : 750MHz PIII laptop 17min 21sec: dual 650MHz PIII, 7200RPM disks, make -j2 16min 1sec: distcc on the dual 650MHz as localhost, 750MHz laptop, and a 1.1GHz celeron, make -j4
And on another machine not at home: 8 min : dual 1.2GHz P4 Xeon, make -j2
So the fastest build I've seen so far (not including configure or make depend) is about 8 minutes.
distcc seems to help a tiny bit. it's kind of looking like I should get a faster motherboard if I want sub-ten-minute builds.
Next step should be to measure benefit of using ccache when searching through cvs for the patch that broke something, but I'll probably just go out and get a faster motherboard.
I want one with gigabit ethernet onboard; pricewatch says $320 for an Asus A7V8X with "2400" Athlon XP, $353 for an Asus P4PE with 2.4GHz P4. Hmm. I bet either one of those would get me Wine builds below ten minutes... Does anyone have a good recipe for building an inexpensive machine that can build Wine quickly? - Dan