Re: error in 0.12.1 garnome

[Andreas Somogyi <andreas somogyi nu>]

Citerar Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>:

> <quote who="Andreas Somogyi">
> 
> > > Did you change any GARNOME settings, or build it "differently" in any
> > > way (such as using -j or GCC 3.1, or...)?
> > 
> > For a newbie: What difference does the '-j' setting make?
> 
> -j is a parameter to make which tells it to fulfill dependencies in
> parallel.

[...]

> (-j becomes interesting when you have, say, sixteen files to build at once.
> It's a great way of testing your CPU, memory and I/O in one fell swoop.)

Ok, so it doesn't make a difference for the end result, just for the building 
process. My laptop only has 128 Mb ram so I think  i'll leave '-j' out...

> > I've used linux for about a year, but am no programmer, so these things
> > still confuse me... And should there be any differences between compiling
> > with gcc-2.95, gcc-3.0 and 3.1?
> 
> 2.95 is the most commonly used at this point, 3.0 is generally regarded as
> broken, 3.1 is the "new stable" release, and supports lots of crazy new
> optimisations for things like athlon-xp arch, etc. I just used 3.1 to see
> if
> it would work. ;-)

Ok. I've used 3.0, but downloaded 3.1 (but couldn't build it yesterday because 
of lack of disk space) but I guess I'll get rid of 3.0 and install and use 3.1 
then... :-)

> > Btw - Gnome compiled from 0.12.2 seems to load _a lot_ slower than
> 0.12.0... 
> 
> Given that there are *very* few differences in the software, I find that
> surprising. You may be building it differently, I don't know. If you want
> to
> see it running speedily, use the non-debugging settings in category.mk. But
> don't submit backtraces with non-debug builds!

I thought debugging was off by default, isn't it? (i'm not at home so i can't 
check now...)

I don't know, the slowness might have to do with my migration to X 4.2.0 as 
well... (and now, my usb mouse mysteriously ceased working in X as well.. :-/ )


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