Re: Suspending and resuming compile process
Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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. To my
> surprise, it worked fine and I was able to compile and install
> webkitgtk+ successfully.
>
> Now, I am thinking of applying this to kernel compilation, etc. Is this
> common practice? Do others do this as well?
Just thought I would give my 2 cents on this. For long compilations, I do it
in the background along with nohup. It works great. The command line looks
like
nohup make 2>&1 | tee make.log &
That way the program runs in the background, output is redirected to a file,
compilation goes on even after log out.
hth
raju
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