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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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%general-entities;
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]>
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<sect1 id="prepare-aboutsbus">
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<title>About SBUs</title>
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<?dbhtml filename="aboutsbus.html"?>
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<para>Most people would like to know beforehand approximately how long it
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takes to compile and install each package. But "Linux from Scratch" is built
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on so many different systems, it is not possible to give actual times that are
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anywhere near accurate: the biggest package (Glibc) won't take more than
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twenty minutes on the fastest systems, but will take something like three days
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on the slowest -- no kidding. So instead of giving actual times, we've come up
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with the idea of using the <emphasis>Static Binutils Unit</emphasis>
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(abbreviated to <emphasis>SBU</emphasis>).</para>
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<para>It works like this: the first package you compile in this book is the
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statically linked Binutils in <xref linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/>, and the time it
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takes to compile this package is what we call the <quote>Static Binutils
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Unit</quote> or <quote>SBU</quote>. All other compile times will be expressed
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relative to this time.</para>
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<para>For example, consider a particular package whose compilation time is 4.5
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SBUs. This means that if on your system it took 10 minutes to compile and
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install the static Binutils, then you know it will take
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<emphasis>approximately</emphasis> 45 minutes to build this package.
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Fortunately, most build times are much shorter than the one of Binutils.</para>
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<para>Note that if the system compiler on your host is GCC-2 based, the SBUs
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listed may end up being somewhat understated. This is because the SBU is based
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on the very first package, compiled with the old GCC, while the rest of the
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system is compiled with the newer GCC-3.3.2 which is known to be
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approximately 30% slower.</para>
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<para>Also note that SBUs don't work well for SMP-based machines. But if you're
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so lucky as to have multiple processors, chances are that your system is so fast
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that you won't mind.</para>
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<para>If you wish to see actual timings for specific machines, have a look at
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<ulink url="&lfs-root;~bdubbs/"/>.</para>
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</sect1>
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