<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/4 Duncan Coutts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:duncan.coutts@worc.ox.ac.uk">duncan.coutts@worc.ox.ac.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Did you say this was an ordinary Debian install? What version, what<br>
hardware platform?<br>
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What version of binutils was that? Was ld using a massive amount of<br>
memory? Was it using an amount of memory that pushed everything into<br>
swap? Presumably it's the final link that is taking so long, not<br>
compiling and linking Setup.hs ?<br>
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Duncan<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br>Quick answers are<br><br>yes, ordinary install - Debian 5.1 i386, I chose the basic workstation and desktop installs that are the defaults, nothing fancy. I used the packages for GHC 6.8.2 and then added 6.8.3 and 6.10.3 from source, slow but expected. Cabal 1.6 took hours and hours to install from source.<br>
<br>The machine is an old compaq with 2.4Ghz P4 and 40Gb drive with lots of space, since I only just installed it, and 256Mb RAM. I know it's not a fast machine, but still... nothing else takes 8+ hrs to install!<br><br>
I didn't get any memory usage off it at the time because the whole machine was so locked up I could barely type, so "ps ax" was as far as I got before cursing, using "renice" to up the priorities, and then turn off the screen and leave it till it finished. <br>
<br>binutils is version... <br>GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.18.0.20080103<br><br>I reinstalled all the obvious things like gcc and, oh, this is better -<br>Reinstalled the following packages:<br>binutils (2.18.1~cvs20080103-7)<br>
gcc (4:4.3.2-2)<br>gcc-4.1 (4.1.2-25)<br>gcc-4.3 (4.3.2-1.1)<br>pkg-config (0.22-1)<br><br>Tomorrow I'll start another install and save some of the output for you. If there's any commands in particular you want me to pick up then let me know.<br>
<br>Iain<br>