Re: lilypond-2.6.3 : tiring rpmbuild

[Erik Sandberg]

On Friday 16 September 2005 20.28, Jean-Charles wrote:
> On Mandriva LE2005
>
> Being unsatisfied with the autopackaging of LilyPond (no emacs-mode, no
> doc), I tried to build my rpm as usual. Building a 2.4.6 takes about 3
> hours with all the fonts stuff), but my spec files did not fit the 2.6.x.
>
> I picked up a source on the free.fr mirror and expected a good rpm
> building. Having nobody at home, I opened the spec-file with emacs and
> launched the process at 08:15. Wanting to go to bed, I killed it at 23:28
> as it was compiling /Documentation/instrument-notation.itely at line 2878
> only.
>
> Is there something wrong with my computer (might be too old with its P-III
> 450 and 128 Mo RAM) or ...?

I guess the RAM could be the bottleneck. (256 meg RAM seems to be enough). 
Also, there is a memory leak in some 2.6 versions (I don't remember which 
ones), this could make things even worse.

It may sometimes help to terminate make and re-run it. It may also help to 
shut down X, this frees some memory.

-- 
Erik