Bill Studenmund wrote:

>On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Antti Kantee wrote:
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>>On Thu Sep 26 2002 at 12:23:50 +0000, Julio Merino wrote:
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>>>On Thursday 26 September 2002 09:31, Eric Jacoboni wrote:
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>>>>Hi,
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>>>>Has anybody tried to build OpenOffice package on a i386 1.6H box ?
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>>>>When i try, i the process freezes some hours after the beginning :
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>>>It freezed for me too, but when calling javac... Although, the program appered
>>>to be consuming 90% of cpu time, acording to top, but after several hours,
>>>it didn't finish...
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>>Well, it does continue at some point and move onto the next file.
>>I got bored with it after two or three days. Something must be amiss.
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>How about running ktrace to see what it's doing, or attach gdb to see
>where it's stuck? You might get lucky and see an obvious problem.
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Well, from my quick analysis when compiling openoffice, it's not really
stuck at all.  It's checking shared libraries, and it seems to be in a 
nested loop
to do something to every symbol in the lib.  I guess we just have the 
slowest ld.so_elf
on the face of the planet. :-)

But this my 2 minute analysis, so I could be wrong.

    -- Lennart