Re: Restart Building a Package
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Satya Prakash Prasad wrote:
> Is there a way that I can terminate an ongoing package creation process and
> then restart the same on a suitable time?
In general, no. *Some* packages (typically very simple ones) will
tolerate this well, while others won't and will have to restart the
build from scratch. gcc is a very complex package, it is likely it will
have to redo a lot (all?) of the build work.
May I suggest you *suspend* that build, instead? SIGSTOP can stop
running processes (undo it using SIGCONT)... if you're lucky, Typing ^Z
in the window with the build is enough (continue with the "fg" command).
Don't close that window, the stopped processes belong to that shell
instance.
"pstree" and "kill -s STOP" (undo with "kill -s CONT") can help you if
^Z doesn't work.
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