On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 07:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 06:14 on Thursday 03 February 2011, Dale did > opine thusly: > > > Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > > I am having problems building openoffice - it gets to the IDL files > > > (actual file it hangs on can vary) and seems to crash part of X and the > > > build hangs. > > > > > > Anyone seen this before? - it is happening on only one of my systems and > > > I google isnt showing me any similar situations. > > > > > > BillK > > > > Since that is a huge package to build, you got enough memory? How about > > drive space on portages work directory? May want to check with top and > > df to see if one of those is causing problems. > > Also try build with j=-1 >
Done that, plus ~210 gigabytes spare, tried no ccache, blank cflags etc etc, and its built successfully many times on this machine - up until a month or so ago. However, I'm running python-updater as Ive discovered a few other things are not working, so its probably some obscure part of the build chain/supporting apps is broken. Billk
