XFCE won't install

[Erik Harrison]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:51:13 -0600, Rusty Herbert Cross
<rhcross at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Excellent! I'd like to hear what the performance is like, one you get it going.

> 
> 
> 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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