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Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 19:39:46 -0500
From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>
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To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
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Subject: Re: KDE2 fails to compile in strangest possible way
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A brief update for all.  A check indicates that mcopidl.cc is about
75K.  The file has been compiling (still on that line) for close to 37
hours now.  Does that still seem remotely reasonable?

Will Andrews wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:14:09PM -0500, Laurence Berland wrote:
> >       Trying to compile KDE 4.1 on a somewhat recent 4.1-STABLE yields some
> > strange results.  All appears to be going well, until it begins
> > compiling the file mcopidl.cc.  The precise line is
> 
> You mean KDE 1.94?
> 
> > c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I,,.,,.dcop -I../../kdecore
> > -I../../kdeui -I../../kssl -I/usr/X11R6/include/qt2 -I/usr/X11R6/include
> > -I/usr/local/include -I./../mcop -I/usr/local/include
> > -I/usr/local/include  -O -pipe -frtti -c mcopidl.cc
> 
> mcopidl.cc is a huge file.  If you run low on swap, it may take forever
> or close to that.  I recommend at least 200MB of memory minimum to
> compile the entire suite (including physical and swap).
> 
> > MB).  Just for reference the machine is a PPro 200 with 32 MB ram, 128MB
> > swap, running a generic kernel.
> 
> Yeah, that's the bottleneck.  For your system I suggest using packages.
> Unfortunately, mcopidl.cc obviously needs to be broken up, but hasn't.
> 
> For reference, I have a dual PIII-500 w/ 512MB of memory, and the new
> box I'm building will have a dual PIII-600E w/ 640MB.  The former takes
> approximately 5 hours to build the entire suite.
> 
> --
> Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> - Physics Computer Network wench
> The Universal Answer to All Problems - "It has something to do with physics."
>         -- Comic on door of Room 240, Physics Building, Purdue University

-- 
Laurence Berland
Intern, Flooz.com
Northwestern '04
stuyman@confusion.net


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