Re: Suspending and resuming compile process
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:24:17 +0100
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2009-03-25 19:58 +0100, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
>
> > I have a fairly old laptop (500MHz G4) and I tend to compile a lot of
> > applications from source. Most of time it doesn't take too long but
> > when I compile large libraries or applications this sometimes takes 4-5
> > hours.
> >
> > An example is webkitgtk+ 1.1.3. I needed this to compile the latest
> > version of midori. After a couple of hours of compilation, I paused the
> > job using Ctrl-Z and suspended my laptop to RAM. The next morning, I
> > resumed the laptop and typed 'fg' to resume the compile.
>
> Why did you not leave it running overnight to finish the compilation?
>
Ran out of juice in the battery and didn't have my charger ;)
> > To my surprise, it worked fine and I was able to compile and install
> > webkitgtk+ successfully.
>
> That doesn't really surprise me. As long as your laptop resumes from
> suspend, this should never be a problem.
>
It makes sense now.
> > Now, I am thinking of applying this to kernel compilation, etc. Is this
> > common practice? Do others do this as well?
>
> Well, if you're running "make" to build the software, you can even
> terminate it and shutdown your computer, because make is designed to
> continue where it left off. At least if the Makefile isn't crap.
>
That's interesting...
> Sven
>
>
Thanks,
Amit
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