Re: compiling Classpath on cigwin/win

[Enrico Migliore]

Hi Dalibor,

thanks for your prompt answer.

> > (I had to disable gtk-peer because for some reason the configure utility
> > says "X is not installed"... even though X is installed through Cygwin...
> > I'm sure X is running because I got the excellent DDD debugger which
> > is a Windows based program, working on my Win2k)
> >
> >    
>
> that could indicate a bug in the configure.ac code for X detection.
>
>  
ok, let's keep this in mind and face one problem at a time.

> > The problem is that the Classpath compilation process started this
> > morning at 8:00 and, at 5 p.m., hasn't finished it.
> >
> > The machine I'm using is a:
> >
> > CPU: Intel @ 3GHz
> > RAM: 192 MBytes
> > OS: WinXP
> > case: Laptop
> >
> > Is it reasonable a compilation time that long?
> >    
>
> yes. it is probably swapping itself to death. 
>
>  
Do you mean anything is going wrong?

> I can build kaffe's copy of classpath (which adds a ton of more files, 
> including gnu crypto) on a box with 1gb in less then a minute (p4 3ghz, 
> latest cygwin, win xp, etc.). 
>
>  
if it takes less than a minute, something is definetely going wrong.

> Jikes is not superbly memory efficient. Afair, neither is gcjx or ecj.
> Building Kaffe's copy of the class libs takes more than 180M of memory,
> so (since I've got a p3-650/192M notebook :) I am building on more
> potent machines.
>
>  
The hard disk is still, that means that Jikes is not making use of 
virtual memory.
I'm gonna stop the build.

Any suggestions are welcome?

> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>
>  
ciao,
Enrico