Hi

I don't think it's normal.
Maybe there is a loop in compiling. 
Please check, if it's still running, if there is some piece of code that
repeats
continuously. 

Post your emerge --info output


Lorenzo Marussi


Il giorno lun, 13/11/2006 alle 10.31 -0500, James Colby ha scritto:

> All -
> 
> I am trying to emerge sys-fs/device-mapper on an older piece of
> hardware (AMD Duron 800, with 512Mb of Ram).  The package has been
> compiling for something like 8 hours already.  Is this normal?  It
> seems like an awfully long time to me.  As a comparison, I was able to
> compile the kernel in about 15 minutes.  If this isn't normal, any
> ideas as to what the problem could be.  I didn't see anything on
> bugs.gentoo.org.
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
> 
> In case it matters my make.conf looks like this:
> 
> CFLAGS="-mtune=athlon -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
> USE="-arts -ipv6 apache2 mysql pam ssl xml xml2 -gnome -gtk alsa oss
> nvidia -cups mmx -ldap -kde -qt -kde nptl nptlonly"