Re: [fpc-pascal] Progress indication while linking

2010-12-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Jonas Maebe wrote: The ld manual page lists some options you can use to reduce its memory usage: * --no-keep-memory (makes it re-read object symbol tables from time to time instead of keeping them in memory all the time) * --reduce-memory-overheads (small hash tables a

Re: [fpc-pascal] Progress indication while linking

2010-12-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jonas Maebe wrote: The ld manual page lists some options you can use to reduce its memory usage: * --no-keep-memory (makes it re-read object symbol tables from time to time instead of keeping them in memory all the time) * --reduce-memory-overheads (small hash tables and slower but less memory

Re: [fpc-pascal] Progress indication while linking

2010-12-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Boris Samorodov wrote: Hi Mark, you wrote: since I've not got GNU Screen FYI: They say that tmux can be used under Solaris: http://www.mail-archive.com/tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg0.html Thanks Boris, I'll investigate although I must say that I'm being fairly careful not to in

Re: [fpc-pascal] Progress indication while linking

2010-12-28 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 28 Dec 2010, at 13:17, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Thanks, I'd forgotten that site. Tries to tell me that CPU is 0.05 but still > takes 10 secs to login- I'm pretty sure the whole system's thrashing... > [applies ear to case] yup, it's thrashing. The ld manual page lists some options you can

Re: [fpc-pascal] Progress indication while linking

2010-12-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jonas Maebe wrote: On 28 Dec 2010, at 12:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: 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

Re: [fpc-pascal] Progress indication while linking

2010-12-28 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 28 Dec 2010, at 12:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > 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

Re: [fpc-pascal] Progress indication while linking

2010-12-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Vincent Snijders wrote: 2010/12/28 Mark Morgan Lloyd : 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 d

Re: [fpc-pascal] Progress indication while linking

2010-12-28 Thread Vincent Snijders
2010/12/28 Mark Morgan Lloyd : > 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? >> >> No, the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Progress indication while linking

2010-12-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
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? No, there isn't. FPC currently does not show any output fro

Re: [fpc-pascal] Progress indication while linking

2010-12-28 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Tue, December 28, 2010 11:04, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On low-spec systems (for example Linux on ARM with 32Mb or Solaris on > SPARC with 128Mb) linking a large project such as the Lazarus IDE can > take several days. > > Is it possible to get any sort of activity indication that confirms that

Re: [fpc-pascal] Progress indication while linking

2010-12-28 Thread Jonas Maebe
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? No, there isn't. FPC currently does not show any output from the linker, bu

[fpc-pascal] Progress indication while linking

2010-12-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On low-spec systems (for example Linux on ARM with 32Mb or Solaris on SPARC with 128Mb) linking a large project such as the Lazarus IDE can take several days. Is it possible to get any sort of activity indication that confirms that the linker is actually doing something useful, rather than jus