Dane, Memory was the problem. I upgraded from a 384 slice to a 512 and it worked great.
Thanks so much! -David On Oct 10, 2010, at 12:53 AM, Dane Springmeyer wrote: > Hi David, > > Try stopping apache and any other processes that may be claiming memory. I > see you are likely installing the development branch of Mapnik 0.7.2, which > sounds good. It should be able to compile the 0.7.x series with ~ 300-400 MB > of ram, but surely it will compile more promptly with more. The > bindings/python/mapnik_rule.cpp is usually the file that hangs under extreme > low memory situations on shared hosts, so if you see a hang there you may > need to up your slicehost specs. > > If you find this annoying that you need memory to compile, I would recommend > you get a hold of a more recent ubuntu VM for slicehost as 10.04 has nearly > the latest Mapnik release available via apt. > > Dane > > On Oct 9, 2010, at 9:18 PM, David Yeiser wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I"m installing Mapnik for the first time and have apt installed all the >> dependencies listed here: >> http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/UbuntuInstallationOld#UbuntuHardyHeron8.04 >> >> And then I also installed more things via the SVN install guide, >> specifically these: >> sudo apt-get install libboost* libicu* libfreetype* proj # see below for >> full list >> >> I can correctly configure Mapnik with 'sudo python scons/scons.py configure' >> >> Except it does give this message: >> >> Note: will build without these OPTIONAL dependencies: >> - boost system (more info see: >> http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/MapnikInstallation & http://www.boost.org) >> >> However, when I go to build it (or install it) it always hangs at this point: >> >> g++ -o src/load_map.os -c -DHAVE_LIBXML2 -DHAVE_CAIRO -DHAVE_PYCAIRO -ansi >> -Wall -pthread -ftemplate-depth-100 -DLINUX -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE >> -DMAPNIK_THREADSAFE -DSVN_REVISION=2273 -O2 -finline-functions -Wno-inline >> -DNDEBUG -fPIC -DPNG_NO_MMX_CODE -Iagg/include -I. -Iinclude >> -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 >> -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo >> -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/pycairo >> src/load_map.cpp >> >> I'm running Hardy, Python 2.5, apache2, mod_wsgi and a bunch of other stuff >> (I've previously installed Django, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, et al). >> >> I have a Slicehost account with 384MB of RAM. >> >> I can't find much on Google, however I'm also very new at this. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks for your time! >> -David >> _______________________________________________ >> Mapnik-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users >
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