Snapshot of 3/6/2001

[Stan Shebs]

Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> On Mar 8,  2:24pm, Stephen Smith wrote:
> 
> > It tool 2.5 hours for insight gdb to configure and compile up to the utils/spu directory.  How long should
> > it take for that section to compile - I am up to 1.5 hours.
> 
> That seems excessive.  I just tried it on one of my machines and it
> finished in a matter of seconds.

I bet he's doing a "./configure; make" so it's all happening
at once.

> The other thing I noticed is that this is not built by default, so
> I'm wondering how you ended up building utils/spu in the first place?

utils/spu is the last directory in the GDB package, so if the machine is
hanging at the end of the configure or doing something silent after
running configure, it will look like it's hanging there.

Stan