How long does it take you to compile wine?

[Ben Hodgetts]

Dan Kegel <dank <at> kegel.com> writes:

> 
> Way back five years ago, we all compared notes on how
> long it took to build Wine on our systems.
> http://www.winehq.org/site/?issue=149#Compile%20Time%20Comparisons%20/%20Tips
> 
> Today I measured it on a new computer (with a spiffy
> new Intel dual core e7200 processor with 2GB of RAM,
> http://kegel.com/new-computer-2008.html ).
> 
> Result: ... it takes me a bit longer today on this machine (11 minutes)
> to build as it did then on a dual cpu hot rod (8 minutes).
> I guess Moore's Law isn't quite keeping up with Wine's code growth 
> 
> 


Depends on the machines, on my new PC I just built it is... rather fast and 
very useful for regression testing. Doing a configure, build and install
from a completely clean setup, without ccache on my machine takes
3 minutes :) Quite nice.

Ben H