On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 01:29:05AM -0800, Norm Larkin wrote: > Hello, > > I was idly trying to experiment and decided I wanted to see how long it took, > how much disk space was involved, how hard it was on a system, and so on, to > build the entire ports tree. I loaded up a fresh system with FreeBSD 8.1R on > i386, used all defaults for the installer options, had it install all sources > and the ports tree, went into /usr/ports, set BATCH to yes, and did "make > install". It bombed within about an hour. Figuring my ports were out of > date, > I repeated this after wiping all of /usr/local, /var/db/pkg, /usr/ports, and > then using portsnap to fetch and install. Same result. I then tried loading > the amd64 version. Same thing. > > What am I doing dumb here (other than possibly trying to build all ports). > It > seems to always get messed up on libxml2.
Have you tried building libxml2 only?
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