On 2007-10-16, Emmanuel Hainry wrote: > Citando Adam Funk : >> I'm trying to do `sudo port install ghc` on my old PowerBook and it's >> taking longer than I can leave the laptop sitting around to do it. I >> tried hitting Ctl-C and then running the same command again (this >> always worked when fink, which I recently switched from, was building >> from source packages) but I just get an insurmountable error (as far >> as I can tell) and have to start over again. >> >> I know that normally make-driven builds can be interrupted and >> resumed, but I'm new to MacPorts. How can I do this? > > Most ports can be interrupted during build and macports will try to > resume the phase that was not completed. If it is in the build phase and > make is used, it should work. ghc is one exception, so unfortunately, in > this case, there is no way (that I know of) to use what was already > built. To convince yourself, you can go into the build directory > (something like /opt/local/var/macports/build/_*ghc/work/ghc*) and type > make, you should get the same error).
I suppose ghc is the big dependency hump I'll have to get over. > However, if you just put your powerbook to sleep instead of interrupting > the build, the build would go on when you wake it up again. That works, thanks. (Now on day 2 of building ghc!) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
