This is http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/20842
It seems that the script is accidentally quadratic in the number of filenames, and gcc has almost 100k files... On Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 2:56:41 PM UTC+2, kcrisman wrote: > > > > On Saturday, June 18, 2016 at 7:01:47 AM UTC-4, leif wrote: >> >> Volker Braun wrote: >> > KeyboardInterrupt means you pressed Ctrl-C (or maybe your cat ran over >> > the keyboard) >> >> But it took the cat about half an hour to get bored by "Setting up build >> directory for gcc-4.9.3.p1" (or probably less, and then a couple of >> minutes to figure out how to press Ctrl-C, I don't know it). >> > > Indeed. In fact, the cat tried several times, once waiting at least an > hour for the build directory to get set up. Any ideas on why the cat had > to wait so very, very long, especially when taking the tarball out of > upstream/ and putting it elsewhere allowed tar -xvf to open it up within a > couple minutes? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-release@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.