tinderbox information.

[Harold L Hunt II]

Kendall Bennett wrote:

> Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith@Sun.COM> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Jim Gettys wrote:
>>
>>>The cycle time will then be several hours, however, since
>>>the monolithic stuff takes so long to build.
>>
>>Are we changing fast enough that a several hour cycle is a problem?
>>(And "make World" on the entire monolithic tree currently takes only
>>  19 minutes on our shiny new dual 2Ghz Opteron system - a far sight
>>  from the first time I built X on a Sparc 2 and it took over 24 hours.
>>  Just need to get a few more of those boxes in here so we can stop
>>  fighting over access to it.)
> 
> 
> If you want to speed up builds, consider asking TrollTech to donate 
> copies of their 'Team Builder' product to Freedesktop.org for use on the 
> Tinderbox (at least for Linux builds).

I think we could just as easily use 'ccache' and 'distcc' which are 
nearly trivial to setup and run on almost all platforms, including Cygwin.

Not to start a holy war or anything :)

Harold