Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-04-23 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hi, > > I have a fairly old laptop (500MHz G4) and I tend to compile a lot of > applications from source. Most of time it doesn't take too long but > when I compile large libraries or applications this sometimes takes 4-5 > hours. > > An example is webkitgtk+ 1.1.3. I

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Celejar: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:06:33 +0100 > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I suspended while compiling kernels a few times already. I didn't even >> bother to suspend the process. No problems so far. But I agree it takes >> a while to gain confidence that this really works. :) > > IANAE, but I r

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:06:33 +0100 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Amit Uttamchandani: > > > > Now, I am thinking of applying this to kernel compilation, etc. Is this > > common practice? Do others do this as well? > > I suspended while compiling kernels a few times already. I didn't even > bother to su

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:24:17 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-03-25 19:58 +0100, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > I have a fairly old laptop (500MHz G4) and I tend to compile a lot of > > applications from source. Most of time it doesn't take too long but > > when I compile large libraries or

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Mark McCorkell
Celejar wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:06:33 +0100 Jochen Schulz wrote: Amit Uttamchandani: Now, I am thinking of applying this to kernel compilation, etc. Is this common practice? Do others do this as well? I suspended while compiling kernels a few times already. I didn't even

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:06:33 +0100 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Amit Uttamchandani: > > > > Now, I am thinking of applying this to kernel compilation, etc. Is this > > common practice? Do others do this as well? > > I suspended while compiling kernels a few times already. I didn't even > bother to su

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-03-25 19:58 +0100, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I have a fairly old laptop (500MHz G4) and I tend to compile a lot of > applications from source. Most of time it doesn't take too long but > when I compile large libraries or applications this sometimes takes 4-5 > hours. > > An example is we

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Amit Uttamchandani: > > Now, I am thinking of applying this to kernel compilation, etc. Is this > common practice? Do others do this as well? I suspended while compiling kernels a few times already. I didn't even bother to suspend the process. No problems so far. But I agree it takes a while to g

Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hi, I have a fairly old laptop (500MHz G4) and I tend to compile a lot of applications from source. Most of time it doesn't take too long but when I compile large libraries or applications this sometimes takes 4-5 hours. An example is webkitgtk+ 1.1.3. I needed this to compile the latest version