groan: installation

[nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk]

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

> Nic> Build takes soooo long. Pity the poor hacker   /8-<
> 
> Doing the .java -> .class all at once may help.
> This requires either bug fixing in gcj or workarounds in libgcj.
> If it provides a build speedup, I'd be in favor of adding the
> workarounds; they're already in Classpath anyway.
> I don't have time to look at this though.  If you write a patch and do
> the time tests, I'll read and approve it though :-)

What seems to take the time (at least on my machine) is the _install_
of all the header files and the building of the eventual .so libs.


Nic