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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] systemd very slow to compile?
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 14:57:37
Message-Id: 20150913155720.2006bf77@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] systemd very slow to compile? by Marc Joliet
1 On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 13:16:29 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote:
2
3 > On Friday 11 September 2015 15:08:54 walt wrote:
4 > >My very old and slow ~amd64 machine took 3 hours and 45-minutes to
5 > >compile systemd-226 today.
6 >
7 > Just out of curiosity: exactly how old? My dual-core amd64 system is
8 > almost 9 years old now, and systemd compiles in about 6 minutes:
9 >
10 > # genlop -t systemd
11 > * sys-apps/systemd
12 > Mon Sep 7 23:57:50 2015 >>> sys-apps/systemd-218-r3
13 > merge time: 12 minutes and 30 seconds.
14 >
15 > (My system might have been pretty busy on that last one, and the second
16 > one must have been a binpkg merge.)
17
18 > Perhaps it is a problem only in the build system of newer systemd
19 > versions?
20
21 It appears to have only occurred with systemd-226, which is why you are
22 not seeing it. I won't post my emerge times because portage was
23 building Chromium at the same time, but even so they were hours in
24 excess of previous builds.
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27 --
28 Neil Bothwick
29
30 "There's more to life than sex, beer and computers.
31 Not a lot more admittedly..."