Re: [Bug-gnubg] Compiling libxml under Vista+mingw+msys

[Massimiliano Maini]

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wrote on 01/04/2008 21:15:39:

> * Massimiliano Maini <address@hidden> [080401
11:01]:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I just tried the above and it's an absoute pain.
> > Just the ./configure takes up to 45 minutes and the make doesn't
even 
> > finish: after 6 hours (!!)
> > it crashes.
> > 
> > As soon as configure or make are started, bot my cores are takes
100% 
> > (this is normal) and
> > after a few seconds (during which things seems to proceeed at
normal 
> > speed) the hard-disk
> > starts working like mad, the process slows down (visually) to
a negligible 
> > speed.
> > 
> > Anyone has a clue ?
> > 
> > Notice that zlib (probably much smaller) was built successfully.
> 
> Memory leak? A process that spawns like crazy and then swaps to the
> disk? Can you start the taskmanager before and chek the process list
> during the compilation?

A bunch of sh.exe and make.exe appears and disappears.
 
> Though it's really weird that a configure lasts 45 minutes.

And the make crashes ... i had to restart it multiple times (and to rename
rxvt.exe to
something else so that it is not used) in order to
have it completed. After that, the
make install didin't work (crazy message "Cannot
allocate stack ..." from install.exe).

I'm wondering if I can compile libxml under msys on
my office PC (XP, here it works,
even if the make is slow) and then take the result
and put it on my Vista PC ...

MaX.

P.S.
Vista sucks big time. Not even Windows 3.11 was that
bad.