How much time to wait for gcc41?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 10, 2007, at 06:23, Tabitha McNerney wrote:

> On a PowerPC G4 (1.0 GhZ) Mac, running Mac OS X Server 10.4.9, with  
> MacPorts 1.4.0 (grabbed out of the repo a few days ago), I'm trying  
> to build gcc41. Sorry, I didn't build with the -v option but I  
> probably should have. Anyway, on this machine, it has been trying  
> to build for almost six hours and has not completed. Would this be  
> considered abnormal or is gcc41 truly that much of a beast and  
> requires many hours? It appears "stuck" at the final line below  
> (again sorry I don't have verbose output):
>
> # port install gcc41
> --->  Fetching gcc41
> --->  Attempting to fetch gcc-core-4.1.2.tar.bz2 from ftp:// 
> ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/pub/gcc/releases/ 
> gcc-4.1.2/
> --->  Attempting to fetch gcc-fortran-4.1.2.tar.bz2 from ftp:// 
> ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/pub/gcc/releases/ 
> gcc-4.1.2/
> --->  Attempting to fetch gcc-g++-4.1.2.tar.bz2 from ftp:// 
> ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/pub/gcc/releases/ 
> gcc-4.1.2/
> --->  Attempting to fetch gcc-java-4.1.2.tar.bz2 from ftp:// 
> ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/pub/gcc/releases/ 
> gcc-4.1.2/
> --->  Attempting to fetch gcc-objc-4.1.2.tar.bz2 from ftp:// 
> ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/pub/gcc/releases/ 
> gcc-4.1.2/
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for gcc41
> --->  Extracting gcc41
> --->  Configuring gcc41
> --->  Building gcc41 with target profiledbootstrap
>
>
> The machine I'm building it on shows that its CPU is persistently  
> running full throttle, something has happening but my guess is that  
> a process is hanging and it should not take over five hours to make  
> and install gcc41.

Last month it took me 6 hours to build gcc41 on a 1.5-GHz PowerBook  
G4, so on a 1.0 GHz G4, you're going to have to wait a few hours longer.