Bitbake Help Please

[nhorlock]

Hi guys,
Following my last post (konq-e build) I now have everything setup for a build. Once I realised that bit keeper is still required and that I could indeed trust the Wiki, all became much easier. The only real pain was mandrake 10 that I am using did not have the Makefile installed as part of the python rpm and thus psyco would not cooperate. In the end I uninstalled all the python rpms and built from source, psyco had no problem after that.

The whole setup appears a lot slicker than my old build setup based on the original sharp env I setup.

Now to the question. I have a nice clean build env setup and as far as I can tell to build konqueror I simply type "bitbake konqueror" from my build dir and away it should go. However, in practice what happens is bitbake comes back with
Note: Using cache in BLAH/BLAH
Note: Handling BitBake files: (0001/2000) [0%]. It then proceeds to work its way through the 2000 files. It will get so far and then slow down and even (apparently) stop for  long periods and if left to run it will eventually exit with "Killed". It seems to abort in this way pseudo randomly. I am just running it again with debug on to see if it offers up any more info but it has been running for over an hour now and is currently hung on

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NOTE: Handling BitBake files: - (1453/2000) [72 %]DEBUG: bbmake: parsing /home/neil/src/open-embedded/openembedded/packages/opie-today-weatherplugin/opie-today-weatherplugin_cvs.bb
for ages (at least 15 mins maybe  more) any ideas anyone? Surely this is not normal is it? What have I missed?

Neil

[lardman]

How much ram do you have?

You get these random slow downs if you don't have enough. You may also be running out altogether and the process is then being killed.

Have the cow patches been released for bb (they drastically reduce memory requirements)? Try typing ~bbcow or ~oecow on #oe and see what the bot tells you.


Si

[nhorlock]

Si,
Thanks for the pointer to COW. The patches have got me a lot further . I think however that my PC is just too feeble. Time to get a new linux dev box I think, the old desktop hand me downs just don't cut it any more.

cheers

Neil