+The time the "make" step takes depends heavily on optimization levels.
+Large amounts of memory (>128MB) will be required by the compiler,
+also depending on optimization. To give you a rough idea of what you
+have to expect the following table may be helpful. It was measured on
+a P-III/500MHz with "enough" memory:
+
+step: | value of $CXXFLAGS: | comment:
+ | -O0 | -O1 | -O2 |
+--------------+-------+-------+-------+-------------------------------
+make | ~4m | ~6m | ~10m | building shared and static lib
+make check | ~2m | ~2m | ~7m | mostly due to compilation
+