Re: Restart Building a Package

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Satya Prakash Prasad wrote:
> Is there a way that I can terminate an ongoing package creation process and
> then restart the same on a suitable time?

In general, no.  *Some* packages (typically very simple ones) will
tolerate this well, while others won't and will have to restart the
build from scratch.  gcc is a very complex package, it is likely it will
have to redo a lot (all?) of the build work.

May I suggest you *suspend* that build, instead?  SIGSTOP can stop
running processes (undo it using SIGCONT)...  if you're lucky, Typing ^Z
in the window with the build is enough (continue with the "fg" command).
Don't close that window, the stopped processes belong to that shell
instance.

"pstree" and "kill -s STOP" (undo with "kill -s CONT") can help you if
^Z doesn't work.