Lasting "Building webkit-gtk"

Adam Dershowitz dersh at alum.mit.edu
Mon Feb 11 09:38:33 PST 2013



On Feb 11, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Frank Schima wrote:

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> On Feb 11, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Adam Dershowitz <dersh at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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>> On Feb 7, 2013, at 11:11 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>> On Feb 8, 2013, at 00:33, Eneko Gotzon Ares wrote:
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>>>> 2.1 GHz PowerPC G5
>>>> Mac OS X.5.8 (Leopard)
>>>> MacPorts v2.1.3
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>>>> Trying to install The GIMP port its "Building webkit-gtk" process lasts already > 5:00' hours. What must I do?
>>>> ·To let the process finish.
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>>> Yes; wait. WebKit is an enormous piece of software and it will take some time to build. If it hasn't finished after 24 hours let us know. I think it finished in less time than that on my 1.67 GHz PowerPC G4.
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>> I am trying to upgrade on a 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (so nothing blindingly fast, but not too old either).   The upgrade has been running for 17 hours.  So far no errors, and it seems to be building.  
>> At what point should I suspect that something might be wrong?  If you could build on a G4 in less then 24 hours then this seems pretty long.  
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> Yes, that seems wrong. What version of Mac OS X and Xcode are you running? Can you check that you have Xcode 4.6 and the latest command line tools?
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> -Frank
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10.6.8 with Xcode 3.2.6.  I believe that is the latest XCode that works with 10.6, so I can't upgrade Xcode?


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