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I'm building the KDE port on OpenBSD 2.8 and it is taking forever
to build kernel/qrichtext.o in the qt2 port.  Is this normal or
do I need to change anything?

Eric Johnson

Some of those c++ sources do seem to take forever.  Use a different xterm
or console and run top to see what's happening.

Or upgrade to a 1.0GHz Athlon with 256MB minimum :-)

Or just install the precompiled binaries.

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: >
: >> I'm building the KDE port on OpenBSD 2.8 and it is taking forever
: >> to build kernel/qrichtext.o in the qt2 port.  Is this normal or
: >> do I need to change anything?
: >>
: >> Eric Johnson
: >>
: >
: >Some of those c++ sources do seem to take forever.  Use a different xterm
: >or console and run top to see what's happening.
: >
: >Or upgrade to a 1.0GHz Athlon with 256MB minimum :-)
:
: Or just install the precompiled binaries.

That kind of takes the fun out of it.  But I'll try it and see
what happens.

Eric Johnson

Quote:>I'm building the KDE port on OpenBSD 2.8 and it is taking forever

last time i tried this -- about two weeks ago -- it took two and a half days
before it exited on an error. hugely underpowered machine, i might add.

cp

: >I'm building the KDE port on OpenBSD 2.8 and it is taking forever
:
: last time i tried this -- about two weeks ago -- it took two and a half days
: before it exited on an error. hugely underpowered machine, i might add.

Two and a half days!

Hmmm.  I might as well kill the job now.

I did take advantage of the delay this afternoon to go
get a haircut.  So it wasn't a complete waste of time.

By the way, I tried using the packages, but it seems to me
that it was mixing up multiple versions and wouldn't run at all.

Eric Johnson

: >I'm building the KDE port on OpenBSD 2.8 and it is taking forever
:
: last time i tried this -- about two weeks ago -- it took two and a half days
: before it exited on an error. hugely underpowered machine, i might add.

That must have been a bit underpowered.  I went ahead and let it
finish and it took less than 24 hours on mine.  I'm not sure how
much left because it was still running when I went to sleep after
midnight and it was finished when I woke up.

I haven't tried it out yet.  I hope it works.

Eric Johnson

I wonder if it is possible to compile OpenBSD binaries on another platform,
such as Linux...?  Anyone?

Quote:> Or just install the precompiled binaries.

Quote:>I wonder if it is possible to compile OpenBSD binaries on another platform,
>such as Linux...?  Anyone?

That makes no sense.
Binaries _are _ already compiled.

Yes, it should be possible. But it's not very easy. And no, we don't have
plans to make it easier right now. Not that it might not be a good idea,
just that it needs manpower to fix details that we currently don't have.