Interrupting and resuming the "Building" phase?

[Adam Funk]

On 2007-10-16, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:

> Citando Adam Funk :
>> I'm trying to do `sudo port install ghc` on my old PowerBook and it's
>> taking longer than I can leave the laptop sitting around to do it.  I
>> tried hitting Ctl-C and then running the same command again (this
>> always worked when fink, which I recently switched from, was building
>> from source packages) but I just get an insurmountable error (as far
>> as I can tell) and have to start over again.
>> 
>> I know that normally make-driven builds can be interrupted and
>> resumed, but I'm new to MacPorts.  How can I do this?
>
> Most ports can be interrupted during build and macports will try to
> resume the phase that was not completed. If it is in the build phase and
> make is used, it should work. ghc is one exception, so unfortunately, in
> this case, there is no way (that I know of) to use what was already
> built. To convince yourself, you can go into the build directory
> (something like /opt/local/var/macports/build/_*ghc/work/ghc*) and type
> make, you should get the same error).

I suppose ghc is the big dependency hump I'll have to get over.


> However, if you just put your powerbook to sleep instead of interrupting
> the build, the build would go on when you wake it up again.

That works, thanks.  (Now on day 2 of building ghc!)