Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] packet-parlay.c takes a very long time to compile in Fedora C

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From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:54:06 +0800


W. Borgert wrote:
Quoting Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Has anyone else noticed that packet-parlay.c (in plugins/giop/) takes a
_very_ long time to compile?  I recently upgraded from Fedora Core 4 to
Fedora Core 5 and now it takes around 10 minutes to compile it (on my
1.6 GHz Pentium 4); I seriously thought the compiler was hung it was
taking so long...

I think, that I did the latest changes on this file and I did not
notice such a problem. Which version is it exactly, that you are
using? I'm running Debian testing/etch on amd64.

I have Fedora Core 5 with:

gcc (GCC) 4.1.0 20060304 (Red Hat 4.1.0-3)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Of course I have no clue how long it used to take and I don't have an
(easy) way to test this on other versions or platforms at the moment--is
anyone else seeing anything like this?

Maybe you could send me the file off-list and I will look, whether
there are differences to my version.

I sent you the file.

I had done a "make maintainer clean; svn up; ./autogen.sh; ./configure; make" so I hope everything got rebuilt correctly.

Maybe it's a compiler bug--it won't be the first time I hit one of those compiling Ethereal :-)