Re: TiBook w/-current semi-comatose building boost-libs

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.2010110805580.1818%spike.technoskunk.fur@localhost>,
John D. Baker <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost> wrote:
>On Mon, 5 Oct 2020, John D. Baker wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 5 Oct 2020, David Brownlee wrote:
>> 
>> > On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 at 13:30, John D. Baker <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Except, when it tries to build "devel/boost-libs".  It gets as far as:
>> > >
>> > > Ideas?
>> > 
>> > Some random thoughts:
>> > - Can you see if there is any interesting (nfs) traffic?
>> > - Does ^T give any output (or ^C)
>> 
>> I'll see about gathering this when I next attempt to build
>> "devel/boost-libs".  Right now, I have it and everything that depends
>> on it eXcluded via 'pkg_rolling-replace -u -Xfoo,bar,baz,qux' and
>> pkg_rr is rolling right along.
>
>I've had it come to a similar impasse while building "qt5-qtbase".
>While it echoed <space><backspace> in the SSH session and the login
>on the console accepted characters, it was unresponsive to ^T or ^C.
>
>It got as far as:
>
>[...]
>=> Generating pkg-config file for builtin expat package.
>=> Replacing Perl interpreter in bin/fixqt4headers.pl bin/syncqt.pl
>mkspecs/features/data/unix/findclasslist.pl.
>Creating qmake...
>..............[stuck]
>
>> > - Does it have plenty of swap configured
>> 
>> It has 2GB in "/swap" (1GB RAM).  I'll see about increasing this.
>> 
>> > - How reproducible is it (maybe leave a separate ssh session running
>> > top & unblanked console)
>> 
>> I'll see if I can arrange the extra session or run 'top' on console but so
>> far it is completely reproducible, any attempt to build "devel/boost-libs"
>> hangs as described previously.
>
>A second ssh session running 'top' is now frozen displaying the following:

Try updating to HEAD. There have been quite a few MI fixes thanks to chuq.

christos