: : :Hi Matt, : :> I'm still playing with this. Actually, I'm still playing with this :> for the first time! I started building the port on my workstation :> yesterday afternoon and, well, it's *still* building 24 hours later! :> Holy cow! : :Hehe. : :It takes 6 hours here with a fast Raid here, 512M Ram and :a 2Ghz P IV :-) : :Martin : :PS: What bulding system you have ?
I wanted to run it on my workstation so I made the mistake of building it on my workstation, A 650MHz Celeron with 256M of memory. It's entirely cpu bound. Someone pass the dunce hat... I should have moved the build to a real box the moment I noticed that the distribution file it was downloading was 116MB :-) I *think* it's almost gotten to the point where the link issues crop up. I already have some approaches in mind: * Ld has a no-keep-memory option which may reduce VM use. I am going to try that first. * Reordering object modules and -l libraries may reduce stacking issues. And if all else fails: * Pre-linking (ld -r) objects in smaller sets then doing a final link will greatly reduce the final link stage footprint by pre-resolving static symbol targets. But first I have to get the build to the point where ld fails. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message