Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> skribis: > I have trouble downloading the 3.3GB 'texlive-data' package and > therefore I'm trying to build it locally. The 'build' and 'check' > phases succeed. However, after the 'compress-documentation' phase a > guile process stays at 100% for 1 hour, after which the process times > out and is killed.
I think what happens is what Mark described in <http://bugs.gnu.org/19811>. For now the workaround is to use --max-silent-time=10000 or similar. HTH, Ludo’.