Michael Sullivan wrote:
I'm fed up with this. I've restarted the emerge of gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my
server box four times now. It always gets to compiling insn-attrtab.o
and then it never stops. I even went into the Makefile to find the
exact command used to compile this particular object file and ran the
command manually. It only took half an hour, but when I told it to
emerge sys-devel/gcc, I guess it didn't like my manually built file, so
it's doing it over again. This time it's been trying to build this file
for over eight hours.
4499 root 18 0 132m 35m 416 R 1.5 60.2 8:41.94 cc1
bullet ~ # strace -p 4499
Process 4499 attached - interrupt to quit
This strace doesn't help me much. What does "attached" mean, anyway?
Is there some other way for me to get gcc-4 on my server box? Some
binary package for an i586 maybe?
You don't mention what sort of machine your server is, but if it's as
old as an i586 then,
in my experience with an old box with very little memory, compiling
insn-attrb takes a
very long time. My 150 mhz laptop takes days to compile gcc and seems
to get stuck
on insn-attrb for many hours. It's been grinding away most of today in
insn-attrb and
has accumulated a couple of hours of cpu time in the process. It'll
probably be
done by Monday or Tuesday.
Just start the emerge then go away and ignore it. It'll finish eventually.
John Blinka
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