I would also maybe try port -v install qt4-mac or whatever, then you can see the build process to see if it's really stalled. Ryan is right though, qt4-mac is a monster build, and takes forever. I think it took almost an hour on my 8 core mac pro.
Mark On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > On Mar 15, 2010, at 05:41, macports-users-ow...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: > >> From: Carsten Bessing <cars...@bessing.net> >> Date: March 15, 2010 05:41:02 CDT >> To: macports-users@lists.macosforge.org >> Subject: Building time for qt4-mac >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to install digikam via MacPorts, but the process seems to stall >> while 'building qt4-mac' - unless this building alone is supposed to take >> over an hour. >> >> I'm on a MacBook Pro, 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 3 GB RAM, OS X 10.6.2. >> >> After well over an hour I interrupted the process and retried with the debug >> flag. I have attached the output, if anyone has the time to tell me if I'm >> just being impatient - or something is wrong. >> >> I'm new to this whole MacPorts thing, so any help would be most appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Carsten >> <QT4.pdf> > > Your original post did not make it to the mailing list because it was 1MB in > size, which is much too large to send to a group with this many subscribers. > > You should simply retry the build. (It will continue where it left off, > unless you cleaned it.) qt4-mac does take a very very very long time to build > (hours on my similar MacBook Pro), and if I recall, about 6GB of disk space. > You'll just have to be patient. > > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users