Gorm taking ages to compile?

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

I asked on the GNUstep List and got this answer:




Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
> Von: Adam Fedor <fedor at qwestoffice.net>
> Datum: 15. Mai 2008 23:37:12 MESZ
> An: Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars.sonchocky-helldorf at hamburg.de>
> Kopie: GNUstep Discuss <discuss-gnustep at gnu.org>
> Betreff: Re: Somewhere else someone else has problems with GORM
>
>
>
> On May 15, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
>
>> Forwarded Mails from macports-users at lists.macosforge.org:
>>
>> Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
>>
>>> Von: Christopher Choi <chutsu at gmail.com>
>>> Datum: 8. Mai 2008 11:08:31 MESZ
>>> An: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
>>> Betreff: Gorm taking ages to compile?
>>>
>>> Hi
>>> I'm went to install Gorm from the ports by issuing the command  
>>> sudo port
>>> install gorm...and it was going well until well its taking a  
>>> whole night to
>>> do it, and its still doing the compilation of Gcc42...
>>> I have a Titanium G4 1GHz with 1Gb RAM so would that explain why  
>>> its going
>>> so slowly? but I still don't get why installing Gorm an  
>>> application can take
>>> such a long time..
>>>
>>>
>
> I'm working on updating macports.   You don't really need gcc4 to  
> compile GNUstep for instance.  It's taking a long time to get basic  
> changes back into their system though...
>



regards,

	Lars






Am 08.05.2008 um 12:36 schrieb Ryan Schmidt:

> On May 8, 2008, at 04:08, Christopher Choi wrote:
>
>> I'm went to install Gorm from the ports by issuing the command  
>> sudo port
>> install gorm...and it was going well until well its taking a whole  
>> night to
>> do it, and its still doing the compilation of Gcc42...
>> I have a Titanium G4 1GHz with 1Gb RAM so would that explain why  
>> its going
>> so slowly? but I still don't get why installing Gorm an  
>> application can take
>> such a long time..
>>
>> this is what the compiling output is:
>>
>> Titan:~ Chris$ sudo port install gorm
>
> [snip]
>
>> --->  Building gcc42 with target all
>>
>> So all is going well until this line showed up and is taking absolute
>> age....what should I do? should I terminate it and try again?
>
> gcc42 takes about 6 hours to compile on a 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4, so  
> on your 1 GHZ PowerBook G4 I would expect it to take about 9 hours.  
> You should also have at least 3GB of free hard drive space.
>
> I'm afraid gorm just has a lot of dependencies [1]. It will take  
> awhile to compile them all.
>
>
> [1] http://www.ryandesign.com/tmp/gorm.png
>
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