You can also press "Ctrl-Z" which will put port (or any other process) to halt. Resuming works via `fg' (foreground) which will revive the backgrounded program.
This is a feature of the shell - so don't close the one that port is attached to. -Markus On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 15:40 +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > 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? > > Thanks, > Adam > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users -- Dipl. Inf. (FH) Markus Weissmann http://www.mweissmann.de/ http://www.macports.org/ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
