Dane,

Memory was the problem. I upgraded from a 384 slice to a 512 and it worked 
great. 

Thanks so much!
-David


On Oct 10, 2010, at 12:53 AM, Dane Springmeyer wrote:

> Hi David,
> 
> Try stopping apache and any other processes that may be claiming memory. I 
> see you are likely installing the development branch of Mapnik 0.7.2, which 
> sounds good. It should be able to compile the 0.7.x series with ~ 300-400 MB 
> of ram, but surely it will compile more promptly with more. The 
> bindings/python/mapnik_rule.cpp is usually the file that hangs under extreme 
> low memory situations on shared hosts, so if you see a hang there you may 
> need to up your slicehost specs.
> 
> If you find this annoying that you need memory to compile, I would recommend 
> you get a hold of a more recent ubuntu VM for slicehost as 10.04 has nearly 
> the latest Mapnik release available via apt.
> 
> Dane
>  
> On Oct 9, 2010, at 9:18 PM, David Yeiser wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I"m installing Mapnik for the first time and have apt installed all the 
>> dependencies listed here:
>> http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/UbuntuInstallationOld#UbuntuHardyHeron8.04
>> 
>> And then I also installed more things via the SVN install guide, 
>> specifically these: 
>> sudo apt-get install libboost* libicu* libfreetype* proj # see below for 
>> full list
>> 
>> I can correctly configure Mapnik with 'sudo python scons/scons.py configure'
>> 
>> Except it does give this message:
>> 
>> Note: will build without these OPTIONAL dependencies:
>>    - boost system (more info see: 
>> http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/MapnikInstallation & http://www.boost.org)
>> 
>> However, when I go to build it (or install it) it always hangs at this point:
>> 
>> g++ -o src/load_map.os -c -DHAVE_LIBXML2 -DHAVE_CAIRO -DHAVE_PYCAIRO -ansi 
>> -Wall -pthread -ftemplate-depth-100 -DLINUX -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE 
>> -DMAPNIK_THREADSAFE -DSVN_REVISION=2273 -O2 -finline-functions -Wno-inline 
>> -DNDEBUG -fPIC -DPNG_NO_MMX_CODE -Iagg/include -I. -Iinclude 
>> -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 
>> -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo 
>> -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/pycairo 
>> src/load_map.cpp
>> 
>> I'm running Hardy, Python 2.5, apache2, mod_wsgi and a bunch of other stuff 
>> (I've previously installed Django, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, et al).
>> 
>> I have a Slicehost account with 384MB of RAM.
>> 
>> I can't find much on Google, however I'm also very new at this.
>> 
>> Any ideas? 
>> 
>> Thanks for your time!
>> -David
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