Since the compilation process is very long, I suggest you give a higher nice value to the make processes launched by wineinstall. I will allow the user to do something else with its computer while wine is compiling.
See where you could give higher nice values in the diff file attached. Jérôme
Index: tools/wineinstall =================================================================== RCS file: /home/wine/wine/tools/wineinstall,v retrieving revision 1.60 diff --unified -r1.60 wineinstall --- tools/wineinstall 29 Sep 2003 20:25:47 -0000 1.60 +++ tools/wineinstall 5 Nov 2003 21:09:42 -0000 @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ if [ "$ROOTINSTALL" = "yes" ] then { # start out with the basic command - sucommand="make install" + sucommand="nice -1 make install" # if the user doesn't have $libdir in their ld.so.conf add this # to our sucommand string @@ -304,9 +304,9 @@ std_sleep # try to just make wine, if this fails 'make depend' and try to remake - if ! { make; } + if ! { nice -1 make; } then { - if ! { make depend && make; } + if ! { nice -1 make depend && nice -1 make; } then { echo echo "Compilation failed, aborting install." @@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ if [ "$BINDIST" = 'no' ] then { echo "Compiling regedit..." - (cd programs/regedit; make) + (cd programs/regedit; nice -1 make) echo } fi