XFCE won't install

[Rusty Herbert Cross]

Ah ha!  I looked and found that the dynamic GNUMake link that I put in
/usr/bin pointed to /usr/bin/make which is OpenBSD make, not
/usr/local/bin/make which is GNU make (installed to /usr/local/bin by
default from the make-3.8 package).

That was why I saw "GNUmake: unknown option -- -" on the installer log.

I was also logged in as root, and even though it is bad form, I really
dobut that it confused the installer in any way.  Now I'm using sudo
as I should have been.

Now XFCE is installing just fine.

If anyone of you is installing XFCE 4.2 on OpenBSD and ther installer
is stuck at %6 after 71+ hours and seems frozen, you probably have the
"make" commands switched.


On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:14:31 +0000, James Tappin <james at tappin.me.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:56:56 -0500
> Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:42:14 -0500, Rusty Herbert Cross
> > <rhcross at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm installing XFCE 4.2.0 on an older computer.  An AMD-K6 with 256 Mb
> > > of Ram.  The OS is OpenBSD 3.6.  I ran the installer for 46.7 hours
> > > with no noticeable progress.
> > >
> > What kinda K6? The lightest machine I ever ran 4.X on was a 700 MHz
> > celery with 64 megs of ram, slow but not unusable.
> >
> > I'd say with the K6 there is a high likelihood that it will be just
> > unusuable. You can try the old 3.x series, if you want a desktop, it's
> > still hanging around in CVS.
> >
> > If you still want to run Xfce 4.2 on that machine, I might consider
> > not building it there
> >
> > > The top command reports that make was running at %96 for all 46.7
> > > hours, so it is not frozen as I had thought.
> > > Top also shows that I have plenty of RAM (150Mb free) while the OS,
> > > the installer, and the X system occupy 90Mb.
> > >
> > > The .xfce4.installer-log has 6 pages more than a log for a 14 hour
> > > install that I cancelled last week.  I want to ask this group, is
> > > there any anecdotal evidence that XFCE will run on a computer as old
> > > as this?
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> > >
> 
> I've just managed to build and run 4.2 on an old Toshiba laptop PII 266
> with 64Mb of RAM + 100 Swap. It's tolerable (much better than KDE), the
> main problem is the very slow disk.
> 
> James
> 
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