Re: [Bug-gnubg] Compiling libxml under Vista+mingw+msys

[Achim Mueller]

* Massimiliano Maini <address@hidden> [080401 11:01]:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just tried the above and it's an absoute pain.
> Just the ./configure takes up to 45 minutes and the make doesn't even 
> finish: after 6 hours (!!)
> it crashes.
> 
> As soon as configure or make are started, bot my cores are takes 100% 
> (this is normal) and
> after a few seconds (during which things seems to proceeed at normal 
> speed) the hard-disk
> starts working like mad, the process slows down (visually) to a negligible 
> speed.
> 
> Anyone has a clue ?
> 
> Notice that zlib (probably much smaller) was built successfully.

Memory leak? A process that spawns like crazy and then swaps to the
disk? Can you start the taskmanager before and chek the process list
during the compilation?

Though it's really weird that a configure lasts 45 minutes.

Ciao

Achim