Xorg taking too long to build on imac G5

[terry]

Hi Justin

Many thanks for your reply. That gives me some comfort and I shall 
continue to wait for the build to finish. And I shall investigate the 
use of poudriere for the next build!

Terry

On 04/02/2019 19:20, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 18:20:53 +0000
> terry <terry at thehjs.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I have installed FreeBSD onto an imac G5 20” (using
>> FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-disc1.iso) and have started
>> building xorg from source.
>>
>> I used “make install” with ‘BATCH=yes’ to install the standard
>> options and avoid halts in the build process.
>>
>> However, the build process has been running now for 106 hours and is
>> still running! My questions are:
>>
>> 1) Has the build process somehow got into a loop (is it possible to
>> test for this?) and should I terminate the build?
>>
>> 2) If yes, what precautions can I take to avoid a repetition?
>>
>> I have spent some time looked through the forum and mailing lists but
>> have been unable to find answers so any suggestions or pointers to
>> existing solutions would be welcomed.
>>
> Hi Terry,
>
> Yes, on such an old machine it can take a *very* long time to build
> x11/xorg and all its dependencies, there's a long list of them
> including lang/gcc5, lang/gcc8 and devel/llvm60, each of which can take
> over 10 hours.  If I remember correctly the iMac G5 was a single-core
> single-CPU machine, so it can take even longer, significantly longer.
> On my dual-core 2.3GHz it would take ~13 hours to build llvm, with 2
> threads running.  So I imagine at least 20 hours with a single thread
> running.
>
> Personally, I strongly recommend installing poudriere, and building
> with that, as it simplifies monitoring, and allows for a cleaner build
> environment.  It doesn't save you any time at all on your build, though.
>
> - Justin