Building time for qt4-mac

[Mark Anderson]

I would also maybe try port -v install qt4-mac or whatever, then you
can see the build process to see if it's really stalled.   Ryan is
right though, qt4-mac is a monster build, and takes forever.  I think
it took almost an hour on my 8 core mac pro.

Mark

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> On Mar 15, 2010, at 05:41, macports-users-owner at lists.macosforge.org wrote:
>
>> From: Carsten Bessing <carsten at bessing.net>
>> Date: March 15, 2010 05:41:02 CDT
>> To: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
>> Subject: Building time for qt4-mac
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to install digikam via MacPorts, but the process seems to stall while 'building qt4-mac' - unless this building alone is supposed to take over an hour.
>>
>> I'm on a MacBook Pro, 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 3 GB RAM, OS X 10.6.2.
>>
>> After well over an hour I interrupted the process and retried with the debug flag. I have attached the output, if anyone has the time to tell me if I'm just being impatient - or something is wrong.
>>
>> I'm new to this whole MacPorts thing, so any help would be most appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Carsten
>> <QT4.pdf>
>
> Your original post did not make it to the mailing list because it was 1MB in size, which is much too large to send to a group with this many subscribers.
>
> You should simply retry the build. (It will continue where it left off, unless you cleaned it.) qt4-mac does take a very very very long time to build (hours on my similar MacBook Pro), and if I recall, about 6GB of disk space. You'll just have to be patient.
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