Hi,
On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 16:46 -0700, Don Rozenberg wrote:
I recently acquired a new PC with a dual core chip running Kubuntu
Feisty Fawn. So when I last tried to build Gimp, version 2.3.18, I used
make -j and the build terminated with an error in just a few seconds.
Is there a
Hi,
I recently acquired a new PC with a dual core chip running Kubuntu
Feisty Fawn. So when I last tried to build Gimp, version 2.3.18, I used
make -j and the build terminated with an error in just a few seconds.
If I just use the command make, the build completes successfully in
about 10
"make -j" without a numeric argument will overwhelm most machines
fairly quickly in complex makes. Since you're running a dual-core
machine, try "make -j3" or "make -j4". This will limit the number of
concurrent processes to something reasonable and provide decent load
balancing between
Looking more closely at what is happening, I notice that when I do a
make -j 3
the make stops with the following error message:
make[2]: *** No rule to make target
`../libgimpthumb/libgimpthumb-2.0.la', needed by `gimp-thumbnail-list'.
Stop.
If I then do a make, followed by a Control-c in
