Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.32 patches for IBM z/Series S390 Linux

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-03 20:55:39

At 02:27 PM 2/2/2005, Jonathan Biggar wrote:
 >Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
 >
 >> Jonathan Biggar writes:
 >>
 >>>Attached are a couple of patches needed to compile boost 1.32 on
 >>>S390 running Linux.  Can someone apply these to the boost source?
 >>
 >>
 >> Applied, thanks!
 >>
 >> Let us know if you are interested in testing Boost with your platform
 >> on a regular basis to make the next releases more IBM-friendly.
 >
 >I'd love to, but in the development environment I've got, compiling
 >boost 1.32 for S390 takes about 24 hours!

Could you comment on that, please? Is the machine and/or compiler slow? Are 
Boost libraries doing something that causes particularly slow compiles?

--Beman