On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:03 PM, brian wrote: > > On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> I doubt it's looping. It's a big build, and the length to compile >> depends on your OS and architecture: for example, it typically >> took 3 >> days on my G4 under 10.4 . 10.5 is a bit better. >> > > Wow !! I mean how do you know it's working when it runs for that > long ?? > > I have a dual G5 under 10.4, and I am happy to report that it did > finish. > > Strangely it looks like it took about 7 hours to build. I am sure > that I started it once before and gave up after it had run more than > 8 hours - I left it running all night and it still wasn't finished > the next morning. However that was a few months ago (?) so maybe > something in the package has changed. > > Thanks for your response. > > Brian > >
I build everything in verbose mode and I look at the output in the terminal. As long as new lines keep coming up I assume it's OK. It's possible that something changed in the package--and if you happened to have built it before on Tiger that's slower than Leopard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
