Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:09:13 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ruby Taking FOREVER to compile? Message-ID: <BF2FF07F-C22D-4B0C-9EE4-024B049E7A84@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <469FB3EB.7070607@chrismaness.com> References: <469FB3EB.7070607@chrismaness.com>
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On Jul 19, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Chris Maness wrote: > I am upgrading all of my ports on a slightly slower machine, and > ruby+pthreads packge is taking what seems to be an unreasonably > long time to compile. Is it possible that it is stuck in a loop? > It has been sitting on "Generating RI" for several hours. It > doesn't seem to take that long to build the whole base system. For some reason, generating the Ruby docs requires a lot of RAM, and will do poorly (ie, swap a lot) if the machine it is running on doesn't have ~ 512MB or more RAM [1]. I believe you can do a "make config" in the ruby ports dir and disable the creation of the Ruby docs which ought to help.... -- -Chuck [1]: I don't remember the exact #, but it's around there...
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