From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 5 14:36:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E77937B502; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:36:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA28075; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:36:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from confusion.net (dhcp089155.res-hall.nwu.edu [199.74.89.155]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma027956; Thu, 5 Oct 00 16:36:28 -0500 Message-ID: <39DCF43C.FD9A3253@confusion.net> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 16:35:56 -0500 From: Laurence Berland X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE2 fails to compile in strangest possible way References: <39D924D1.DA491E02@confusion.net> <39DC3A5B.671E4BDD@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG While I have seriously considered trying GNOME out, that wouldn't really satisfy my desire to figure out what is going on with this file. Top shows the compilation sitting at swread, truss is not telling me anything of interest, and it seems like the system is sitting idle even during all this. Hmm... Laurence Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Laurence Berland wrote: > > > All, > > 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 > > > > 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 > > > > It doesn't fail per se, but it's been working on this for at least 7 > > hours, with no sign of anything happening, though the activity lights > > are flashing. Top shows some activity involving this process, and it > > does seem to be using a large and oft-varied amount of memory (~50-70 > > MB). Just for reference the machine is a PPro 200 with 32 MB ram, 128MB > > swap, running a generic kernel. > > Try GNOME - it's now almost at par with KDE in usability/eye candiness (even > beats it in the later category IMO), while uses old plain C and not so heavily > CORBA-minded, so it is definitely the only choice for low-end machines. > > -Maxim > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland Intern, Flooz.com Northwestern '04 stuyman@confusion.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message