> On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 16:06:28 +0100
> Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...> wrote:
>
>> Except armel, where it takes about a month ;)
>
> I've been wondering for a while now why the armel builds take so
> long—are they actually being done on a system with that type
> of CPU rather than cross-compiled on a faster machine, or
> is it something inherant in the compilation itself?
>
> E. Liddell

For a long time they were being done on a powerful Opteron server via
qemu.  Yesterday I switched the armel builds to a native 1.7GHz builder
based on my success earlier this month with the same hardware and the
armhf builds.  The armel builds are now running at a much higher rate.

Tim