I&#39;ve been having the very same problem. But with my crappy computer (512 Mb ram...) it took me 3 days for the install stage and, as you say, common.copy takes most of the time.<br><br>Regards.<br>- Arthur<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 5/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">chun ping wang</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:cablepuff@gmail.com">cablepuff@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
basically yeah.. common.copy takes about 85 percent of the time. <div><span class="e" id="q_112bf6dcc3cd2457_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vladimir Prus</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:ghost@cs.msu.su" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
ghost@cs.msu.su</a>&gt; wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">chun ping wang wrote:<br><br>&gt; hey thanks.. the ./configure make install now works .. but there is some
<br>&gt; problem with the build process.. for some reason on cygwin the<br>&gt; installation happens to be super slow on my computer.. installing boost<br>&gt; through dev-cpp takes 15 mintues top..installing through cygwin for some
<br>&gt; reason takes 5 hours ... ( common.copy). I know its a little off topic..<br>&gt; but taking 5 hours to install boost shouldn&#39;t be common..<br><br>This is indeed unexpected, but I have no idea what could be wrong. Is
<br>most of this time indeed spent copying files?<br><br>- Volodya<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Boost-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Boost-users@lists.boost.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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