You might try compiling the dependencies one at a time; then when it comes to the final package, you're only compiling that one.
David --- On Sun, 8/1/10, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] installing from source on OS X 10.6.4 seems to > rebuild stuff that's already built > To: "fink-beginners" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, August 1, 2010, 2:30 PM > On 8/1/10 5:07 PM, Gary Pajer wrote: > > I'm working on getting KDE installed. When > executing > > fink install kdebase4-workspace-x11 > > > > the thing grinds and grinds, and finally fails after > 20 minutes or more. > > (reported elsewhere) > > > > Here's my question: > > If I make a change and try again it takes 20 minutes > (or more) again. It's > > recompiling stuff that it just compiled. > > > > Is that the expected behavior? Is there a way to > prevent compilation of > > stuff that hasn't changed? > > If a package fails to build completely and correctly, Fink > will > recompile it from scratch, because there is no way of > knowing if the > initial failure has been corrected. In fact, the > temporary build > directory is completely wiped before the new compilation > attempt takes > place. Fink is deterministic, and works very hard to > make sure that a > compilation for package-version-revision is exactly the > same every time. > If restarting a failed compilation attempt was > possible, that has the > potential to generate very confused packages. > > Hanspeter > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use > the > Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm > for a share > of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for > more details: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [email protected] > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
