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 part
"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 proce