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Re: Trying to build the Hurd



"Kapil H. Paranjape" wrote:
> The system just hung during the build when I kept the two steps
> together (memory leaks ?). By separating the build and the binary
> steps I think I managed to reduced the number of reboots required!

> The hurd continues to hang during large builds and installs like TeX
> probably due to some memory leak mentioned by someone earlier on this
> mailing list.

Make sure yopu have lots of memory and SWAP!
 
> >Yes, but also use -p and --same-owner with tar (both times).
> >
> >Or tar the image file of the partition.
> 
> Do you mean that "tar -p" and "cp -a" can copy translator specials?
> I'll try this tomorrow.

No, but it is important anyway.

Marcus


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