Vincent Snijders wrote:
2010/12/28 Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk>:
Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 28 Dec 2010, at 11:04, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

Is it possible to get any sort of activity indication that confirms that
the linker is actually doing something useful, rather than just sitting
there locked up?

I did some experimenting. During linking I saw the lazarus executable
growing, so you could do a ls -l on it.
What also give some indication of progress is using OPT="-k-t" which
outputs all input files.

On my computer, linking of lazarus is well under 1 min, so not
comparable. Between the last output of -k-t and the creation of new
lazarus executable is some time too, maybe that is a days for you,
without any output.

Output file is sitting here with zero length, so either the linker is sitting in a dark corner giggling to itself or it's slowly writing output but hasn't committed it. I'll try OPT="-k-t" on the next run, I was wondering about that one earlier.

FPC works well enough to compile itself on Solaris (as discussed elsewhere) so I've got no reason to think that things are totally broken. However I've not got a number of tools that I rely heavily on when running Linux- in particular since I've not got GNU Screen if the SSH session goes down I'll have to start over, and I've got neither free nor top so don't have an easy way of looking at what memory allocation is doing.

There are obviously a lot of facets of Solaris that I haven't explored yet, but the CPU and memory it requires for even basic operation appear to have increased exponentially between v8 and v11.

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