Re: (clug-talk) Gentoo Compile problemo

[Jason Louie]

I believe that I've ran into the same problem when my system also.  I've tried all the stages and I got the furthest with stage-3.  One thing you might try is to try recompiling with the make command without the clean option.  With the clean option the compiling will start from scratch deleting the object files.  From my exprience I took over 3 weeks to install a 1/2 assed system failing at installing apache after about 10 tries over the last week.  I've stumbled through complies, updates, installs and each taking an insane amount of time for very simple tasks.  After giving up on gentoo it took me less than 3 hours to install SuSE 8.2ftp.  I came to the conclusion that on sucha slow system it was not worth my time, (3 weeks) to install a server to do simple tasks.  Now I'm not saying gentoo is bad, but taking on average 3 days to install on a faster system and 3+weeks on my system was a waste of my time where I could be doning other stuff.  portage is great if it goes well but if it doesn't it can take days to even isolate the problem and fix it.     Good luck in getting your system working and I hope you have better luck than I did. Nick W wrote: On November 3, 2003 08:21 am, Kevin Anderson wrote: Do a stage 3 install. That'll save you LOTS of time and effort. Chances are that when you emerge rsync later on, you'll end up compiling (literally) everything all over again anyway. I'd recommend going straight to stage 3. After doing the emerge -Up world as Shawn suggested its still giving me grief, so Im gonna go to stage 3....I basically wanted to do stage 1 for the experience, but I just want the box running now. 1 ? though, why would it re-compile at emerge rsync? Probably a stupid question.... Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 12:47 PM Subject: (clug-talk) Gentoo Compile problemo Hey guys and gals, Im trying to put Gentoo on an older machine (P166, 64MB) and starting from stage1. The problem is that it seems to run out of memory compiling binutils while running /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh. Summary of error msgs... ..... Out of memory: Killed process 30259 (cc1) Make[3] *** [elf32.lo] error 1 Make[3] *** waiting for unfinished jobs.... ..... Make[2] *** (All-recursive) error 1 ..... Make[1] *** (All-recursive-am) error 2 ..... Make *** [all-bfd] error 2 !!!Error: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.6-r6 failed !!!Function src_compile, line 140, exit code 2 !!!(no error message) I have my make.conf set for 2 parallel compiles, would settting that to 1 help? Any other tips are appreciated, Im trying to avoid waiting hours just to see it fail again. Thanks -- Nick W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: foolish_gambit ICQ: 303276221 -- Jason Louie BSc. CPSC Web Applications Developer Sorex Software Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]