How much time to wait for gcc41?

[Tabitha McNerney]

On 4/10/07, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
Thanks Ryan for the heads up. I will re-start that on a server and set it up
for an overnight build.

Best regards,

T.M.
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