Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative?

[John Blinka <jblinka@neo.rr.com>]

Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I'm fed up with this.  I've restarted the emerge of gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my
> server box four times now.  It always gets to compiling insn-attrtab.o
> and then it never stops.  I even went into the Makefile to find the
> exact command used to compile this particular object file and ran the
> command manually.  It only took half an hour, but when I told it to
> emerge sys-devel/gcc, I guess it didn't like my manually built file, so
> it's doing it over again.  This time it's been trying to build this file
> for over eight hours.
>
>  4499 root      18   0  132m  35m  416 R  1.5 60.2   8:41.94 cc1 
>
> bullet ~ # strace -p 4499
> Process 4499 attached - interrupt to quit
>
> This strace doesn't help me much.  What does "attached" mean, anyway?
> Is there some other way for me to get gcc-4 on my server box?  Some
> binary package for an i586 maybe?
>   
You don't mention what sort of machine your server is, but if it's as 
old as an i586 then,
in my experience with an old box with very little memory, compiling 
insn-attrb takes a
very long time.  My 150 mhz laptop takes days to compile gcc and seems 
to get stuck
on insn-attrb for many hours.  It's been grinding away most of today in 
insn-attrb and
has accumulated a couple of hours of cpu time in the process.  It'll 
probably be
done by Monday or Tuesday.

Just start the emerge then go away and ignore it.  It'll finish eventually.

John Blinka
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