On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 02:06:53PM -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:14:22PM -0500, Graham Seaman wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Stephen Williams wrote: > > > > > The only time I expect > > > to compile something is when I'm compiling my own project. > > > > > Better keep well away from gentoo :-) > > What a nightmare that was. I'm generally distribution agnostic, but > that one just dragged on and on and on. And none of the packages seemed > to want to download on the first try, so it would have to keep flipping > down through it's list of mirrors retrying and retrying. Yikes.
It happened to me on gentoo when I tried to compile php. It stuck on java-config this way. After a month (!) I gave up and downloaded the source. It even didn't want any java-config and copiled straight out of the box. Cl<
