Stuck compiling xf86ScanPci?

[Jonathan Fosburgh]

On Friday 25 May 2007 13:18:49 Ivan Voras wrote:
> I have a weird problem compiling xorg-server on a recent 7-current on
> i386 with gcc 4.2: the process is stuck compiling xf86ScanPci.c, the
> compiler is just doing nothing, consuming more and more memory.
>
> I've found another report about the same problem
> (http://groups.google.com/group/muc.lists.freebsd.current/msg/1aa3a12054dae
>07f) but without solution.
>
> All this is done on a fresh machine, with all packages deleted
> previously (pkg_delete -a). All previous dependencies were compiled
> without problems. I tried toggling compile flags in the hope it's a
> trivial compiler bug but it didn't help.
>
> (Compiling xorg 7.2 on a another machine, running 6.2, went fine).


I just let it run sometime while I was not really doing anything on the box 
and it eventually finished. I don't know how long it wound up taking.