Failure to build libjava on 512MB machine

Wed Jan 31 11:42:00 GMT 2007

Andrew Haley writes:
 > > 
 > > It does look like we are scaring away some people with the long
 > > build times and memory hungry build of libjava. I only started
 > > building libgcj again recently when I got a
 > > 3Ghz/64-bit/dual-core/2GB machine. And even on that box an
 > > compile/install/test cycle is not something I want to do more than
 > > once or twice a day.
 > 
 > I'm surprised: the libgcj build takes about 15mis on my box, which is
 > similar to yours.
Actually, it used to take that long, but libgcj is a lot bigger these
days. I will re-measure.
Andrew.