[Astlinux-users] 0.4 revision 757 build statistics

[Darrick H. <dha...@dj...>]

I just completed a clean build of SVN revision 757 from the 0.4 branch.  
Here is a list of the steps I took (from my history)

 1016   svn co 
https://astlinux.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/astlinux/branches/0.4 0.4
 1017  cd 0.4/
 1018  ls
 1019  cp astlinux.config .config
 1020  make oldconfig
 1021  make menuconfig
 1022  make
 1023  ls -lah build_i586/root/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5
 1024  svn update
 1025  history

Note in the menuconfig, I did not change anything.  I just verified that 
the settings were correct.

the ls -lah command was to check the timestamp on that file.  That's the 
last file in the build process.

-rwxr-xr-x  1 dhartman dhartman 7.9K Mar 13 12:34 
build_i586/root/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5

Compare that to the kernel .config file to that file.  (the kernel 
.config was the last file touched prior to issuing make)

-rw-rw-r--    1 dhartman dhartman 9.6K Mar 13 11:15 .config

You can see that the total build time on this system was 1 h 19 
minutes.  This included downloading all of the source files.  I'd 
estimate removing at least 20 minutes from that total for download 
time.  This also includes building the tool chain.  My build system is a 
virtual machine with 256MB of ram.  It is hosted on a Athlon 64 x2 
3800+.  I have three virtual machines running on this system as well as 
processes running on the host OS.  (this is my main workstation).

Everything compiled without issue.  I urge others to try those exact 
same steps to verify that their system is fully functional prior to 
making any setting changes anywhere in the build system.  If you are 
getting build errors, look very closely at the error messages.  Are they 
telling you're missing a tool on your build system?

Darrick

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Darrick Hartman
DJH Solutions, LLC
http://www.djhsolutions.com