David writes: > > I am trying to build gcc 4.1.1 on an OLD laptop that I have. > It's been taking days for this to work (I need it so I can build > the driver wrapper for my wireless card). it seems to hang when it > tries to build insn-attrtab.o during the stage 2 build. it's been > taking a relatively long time. But it doesn't exactly freeze, I > can easily hit ^C and it interrupts cleanly and ps reports that > it's running. Is this file known to take a long time to compile? Yes. > am I missing something? How long did you wait? On my box, compiling insn-attrtab.o takes 90s of CPU and 450 Mbytes of memory. This is on a AMD 64 X2 4800+, which is by any standards a very fast desktop computer. I'm not sure of the exact numbers, but I guess it's about 50 times as fast as a desktop computer ten years ago. Also, you might be running out of memory. > > I am running Linux 2.6.18, and I bui9lt it using: > make CFLAGS='-O' LIBCFLAGS='-g -O2' LIBCXXFLAGS='-g -O2 > -fno-implicit-templates' bootstrap-lean > > anyone have any ideas? run 'top -i' during the build. See what it says about CPU load. Andrew.
