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Bug 164677 - media-gfx/enblend-3.0 version bump
Summary: media-gfx/enblend-3.0 version bump
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Graphics Project
URL: http://enblend.sourceforge.net/
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-01-31 09:11 UTC by ralph-bugzillagentoo
Modified: 2007-05-16 07:18 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
enblend-3.0.ebuild (enblend-3.0.ebuild,991 bytes, text/plain)
2007-02-03 18:21 UTC, Tim Harder
Details
libxmi-1.2.ebuild (libxmi-1.2.ebuild,451 bytes, text/plain)
2007-02-03 18:22 UTC, Tim Harder
Details
endless_loop_anneal.patch (endless_loop_anneal.patch,1.34 KB, patch)
2007-02-03 18:23 UTC, Tim Harder
Details | Diff
amd64_compilation.patch (amd64_compilation.patch,374 bytes, patch)
2007-02-03 18:23 UTC, Tim Harder
Details | Diff
enblend-3.0.ebuild (enblend-3.0.ebuild,994 bytes, text/plain)
2007-02-03 19:30 UTC, Tim Harder
Details

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Description ralph-bugzillagentoo 2007-01-31 09:11:12 UTC
There is a new version of enblend which seems to add considerable improvements. I would like to ask for it to be added to the portage tree (masked).

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Tim Harder gentoo-dev 2007-02-03 18:21:50 UTC
Created attachment 109026 [details]
enblend-3.0.ebuild

The new enblend has a few new dependencies including media-libs/lcms, virtual/glut, media-libs/glew, and media-libs/libxmi. Currently, media-libs/libxmi is not in portage.

I also included two patches that can be found in the sf.net tracker for enblend.
Comment 2 Tim Harder gentoo-dev 2007-02-03 18:22:41 UTC
Created attachment 109027 [details]
libxmi-1.2.ebuild
Comment 3 Tim Harder gentoo-dev 2007-02-03 18:23:27 UTC
Created attachment 109028 [details, diff]
endless_loop_anneal.patch
Comment 4 Tim Harder gentoo-dev 2007-02-03 18:23:49 UTC
Created attachment 109029 [details, diff]
amd64_compilation.patch
Comment 5 Tim Harder gentoo-dev 2007-02-03 18:27:07 UTC
It compiles fine for me on x86. Can someone test it on amd64? 

Someone on the hugin-ptx mailing list needed the changes found in the amd64_compilation.patch to make it work for an AMD64 Ubuntu machine. I am wondering how it does on Gentoo.
Comment 6 Hal Engel 2007-02-03 19:24:27 UTC
libxmi is part of GNU plotutils which is in portage.  I had just finished getting my own ebuild working and we had a "mid-air collision" with our posts.  I think the correct thing to do is to remove the the dependency on libxmi and use media-libs/plotutils instead. This will remove the need for a new package. 

With the amd64 patch it built fine on my machine.  
Comment 7 Tim Harder gentoo-dev 2007-02-03 19:30:28 UTC
Created attachment 109034 [details]
enblend-3.0.ebuild

Thanks, changed the dep to media-libs/plotutils.
Comment 8 Christian Kanzian 2007-02-04 11:03:10 UTC
enblend-3.0.ebuild compiles fine on amd64 with amd64_compilation.patch (didn't tested without)
it is serveral times faster than 2.x *WOW 
Comment 9 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-02-05 03:51:33 UTC
Thanks guys, just bumped it in cvs!

By the way, if any of you could provide me with some pictures, it would help me better test enblend, hugin and others.

Cheers,
Marcelo
Comment 10 Grégoire Favre 2007-02-05 18:59:15 UTC
Well, it don't compil here on my amd64 :
make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/enblend-3.0/work/enblend-3.0/src'
if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..    -g -O3 -ffast-math -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DENBLEND_CACHE_IMAGES -DNDEBUG -I../include -O2 -march=k8 -pipe -MT enblend-enblend.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/enblend-enblend.Tpo" -c -o enblend-enblend.o `test -f 'enblend.cc' || echo './'`enblend.cc; \
        then mv -f ".deps/enblend-enblend.Tpo" ".deps/enblend-enblend.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/enblend-enblend.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..    -g -O3 -ffast-math -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DENBLEND_CACHE_IMAGES -DNDEBUG -I../include -O2 -march=k8 -pipe -MT enblend-gpu.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/enblend-gpu.Tpo" -c -o enblend-gpu.o `test -f 'gpu.cc' || echo './'`gpu.cc; \
        then mv -f ".deps/enblend-gpu.Tpo" ".deps/enblend-gpu.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/enblend-gpu.Tpo"; exit 1; fi

And it stays here for ages without going further...

emerge --info
--- Invalid atom in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: =dev-ada/booch_components-20030815.ebuild
--- Invalid atom in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: <=dev-ada/adasockets-1.8.4.4.ebuild
Portage 2.1.2-r7 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.20 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:00:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r3
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r6
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.20
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/"
LC_ALL="en_GB.iso8859-1"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 "
LINGUAS="en ko"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/science /usr/portage/local/layman/gentoo-de /usr/portage/local/layman/vdr-testing /usr/portage/local/layman/voip /usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/portage-xgl"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnowex 64bit 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim aio alsa amd64 amr ansi aotuv apache2 apm asf async atlas auctex audacious audiofile avahi bash-completion batch berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts blas bonjour bonobo browserplugin buffysize buttons bzip2 bzlib cairo caps cardclient cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cg chm chroot cli conax console constcw corba cracklib crypt cryptoworks cscope css csv ctype cups curl curlwrappers daap dar64 dbus dga dio directfb divx divx4linux djbfft djvu dlloader doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi dynagraph ecc effects encode exif expat exscalibar ext-doc ext-dvi ext-gnumeric ext-koffice ext-kpresenter ext-kspread ext-kword ext-lyx ext-man ext-openoffice ext-pdf ext-ppt ext-ps ext-rpm ext-rtf ext-tex ext-xls fame fasttrack fat fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flood fltk fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fping fpx freetext freetype2 gb gcl gd gdal gdbm general gg ggi gif gimp gimpprint ginac glibc-omitfp glitz glut glx gmedia gmp gmtfull gmthigh gmtsuppl gmttria gnome gnutella gnutls gopher gpgme gpm grammar graphviz grass gs gstreamer gtalk gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile h323 hal hdf5 howl-compat httpd iconv icq id3 idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 irc irdeto isdnlog ithreads jabber java javascript jbig jikes jp2 jpeg jpeg2k kig-scripting kqemu lame latex lcms ldap libcaca libedit libg++ libnotify libsamplerate libtommath libvisual libwww live lj lm_sensors lnbsharing logitech-mouse logrotate lzo mad matroska mbox midi mikmod mime mimencode mjpeg mng mod mono motif moznocompose moznoirc moznomail moznoroaming mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer msn msnextras musepack mysql mythtv nagra nautilus ncurses nethack netpbm network nfs nls nntp normalizemime nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia nvram nvtv offensive ogg oggvorbis ole on-the-fly-crypt openexr opengl openssl oscar pam pcre pda pdf perl player plotutils png posix ppds pppd preview-latex pulseaudio python pyzor qhull qt3 qt4 quicktime rar readline recode reflection reiser4 reiserfs rss rtc rtsp sasl screen sdl seca session shl shout sid silc slang slp smime sms sndfile sox speex spell spl srt sse-filters ssl stream subtitles svg svgz szip tcl tcltk tcpd tetex theora thesaurus threads tiff tk tomsfastmath tools transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales utf8 uudeview v4l v4l2 vcd vcdimager vdr viaccess vim vim-pager vim-with-x vlm vorbis webdav wma wma123 wmf wmp wordperfect wv wxgtk1 wxwindows x264 xanim xattr xext xfs xine xinerama xinetd xml xml2 xorg xpm xprint xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ko" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="ati fbdev nv v4l vesa vga nvidia"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG
Comment 11 Tim Harder gentoo-dev 2007-02-05 20:06:17 UTC
(In reply to comment #10)
> Well, it don't compil here on my amd64 :
> make[3]: Entering directory

...

> './'`gpu.cc; \
>         then mv -f ".deps/enblend-gpu.Tpo" ".deps/enblend-gpu.Po"; else rm -f
> ".deps/enblend-gpu.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
> 
> And it stays here for ages without going further...

How, long have you waited before canceling the compile? On my machine it usually takes about 5 minutes to compile just the gpu.cc file. Also, the compiler uses about 500-600 MBs of memory during that phase of the compile. If you don't have very much free memory it will take a lot longer as it will have to swap things in and out of memory.

I would try letting the compile run longer, especially if your machine is low on memory. Start the process and go do something else for awhile.
Comment 12 Grégoire Favre 2007-02-07 16:09:01 UTC
For people with only 1Gb of RAM and only (amd64@3000) compilation take 3 hours ???

But it compil :)
Comment 13 Robin ESTEVE 2007-03-04 15:39:14 UTC
spurious compile warning ... then error on amd64 (march=nocona) & gcc-4.1.1



Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7200  @ 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:30:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r6
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en_GB fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdread exif fam ffmpeg firefox fortran gcj gdbm glut gnome gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k ldap libg++ matroska midi mp3 ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python readline reflection samba sdl session spl sse3 ssl ssse3 svg tcpd threads tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis xorg xvidzlib zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB fr" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS



../include/vigra/impex.hxx: In function 'void vigra::detail::mapVectorImageToLowerPixelType(SrcIterator, SrcIterator, SrcAccessor, MArray&) [with SrcIterator = vigra::Diff2D, SrcAccessor = vigra::MultiImageVectorMaskAccessor4<vigra::ConstCachedFileImageIterator<vigra::RGBValue<short int, 0u, 1u, 2u> >, vigra::RGBAccessor<vigra::RGBValue<short int, 0u, 1u, 2u> >, vigra::CachedFileImageIterator<unsigned char>, vigra_ext::ReadFunctorAccessor<vigra::Threshold<unsigned char, short int>, vigra::StandardValueAccessor<unsigned char> > >, MArray = vigra::MultiArray<3u, int, std::allocator<int> >]':
../include/vigra/impex.hxx:641: warning: 'minmax$min' may be used uninitialized in this function
../include/vigra/impex.hxx:641: warning: 'minmax$max' may be used uninitialized in this function
../include/vigra/impex.hxx: In function 'void vigra::detail::mapVectorImageToLowerPixelType(SrcIterator, SrcIterator, SrcAccessor, MArray&) [with SrcIterator = vigra::Diff2D, SrcAccessor = vigra::MultiImageVectorMaskAccessor4<vigra::ConstCachedFileImageIterator<vigra::RGBValue<short unsigned int, 0u, 1u, 2u> >, vigra::RGBAccessor<vigra::RGBValue<short unsigned int, 0u, 1u, 2u> >, vigra::CachedFileImageIterator<unsigned char>, vigra_ext::ReadFunctorAccessor<vigra::Threshold<unsigned char, short unsigned int>, vigra::StandardValueAccessor<unsigned char> > >, MArray = vigra::MultiArray<3u, int, std::allocator<int> >]':
../include/vigra/impex.hxx:641: warning: 'minmax$min' may be used uninitialized in this function
../include/vigra/impex.hxx:641: warning: 'minmax$max' may be used uninitialized in this function
../include/vigra/impex.hxx: In function 'void vigra::detail::mapVectorImageToLowerPixelType(SrcIterator, SrcIterator, SrcAccessor, MArray&) [with SrcIterator = vigra::Diff2D, SrcAccessor = vigra::MultiImageMaskAccessor2<vigra::ConstCachedFileImageIterator<int>, vigra::StandardConstValueAccessor<int>, vigra::CachedFileImageIterator<unsigned char>, vigra_ext::ReadFunctorAccessor<vigra::Threshold<unsigned char, int>, vigra::StandardValueAccessor<unsigned char> > >, MArray = vigra::MultiArray<3u, int, std::allocator<int> >]':
../include/vigra/impex.hxx:641: warning: 'minmax$min' may be used uninitialized in this function
../include/vigra/impex.hxx:641: warning: 'minmax$max' may be used uninitialized in this function
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:74707: Warning: end of file not at end of a line; newline inserted
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++: Internal error: Killed (program cc1plus)
Please submit a full bug report.
See <URL:http://bugs.gentoo.org/> for instructions.
make[3]: *** [enblend-enblend.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/enblend-3.0/work/enblend-3.0/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/enblend-3.0/work/enblend-3.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/enblend-3.0/work/enblend-3.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: media-gfx/enblend-3.0 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1614:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 971:   Called qa_call 'src_compile'
  environment, line 3025:   Called src_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 645:   Called die
Comment 14 Denilson Sá Maia 2007-04-02 15:22:17 UTC
I can confirm the huge memory need for compiling this package. I have 768MB of RAM plus 730MB of swap. It stopped at:

if i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..    -g -O3 -ffast-math -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DENBLEND_CACHE_IMAGES -DNDEBUG -I../include -O2 -pipe -march=i686 -mtune=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -MT enblend-enblend.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/enblend-enblend.Tpo" -c -o enblend-enblend.o `test -f 'enblend.cc' || echo './'`enblend.cc; \
	then mv -f ".deps/enblend-enblend.Tpo" ".deps/enblend-enblend.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/enblend-enblend.Tpo"; exit 1; fi

for some long minutes... Used all my RAM. It was swapping a lot and my computer got too unresponsive, so I pressed Ctrl+C at emerge.

I don't understand why this huge memory requirement. Not even KDE requires this. However, I can notice -O3 and -O2 on same line (look above). Maybe this is culprit?
Comment 15 Colin Macdonald 2007-04-23 20:33:11 UTC
re: Comment #14: indeed, optimizations are at fault here.  However, changing CFLAGS in make.conf to remove -O is not sufficient because enblend-3.0/src/Makefile contains:

enblend_CXXFLAGS = -g -O3 -ffast-math -Wall ...

If I manually remove the -O3, the compilation uses less memory (about 300MiB from my estimates watching top).  Even -O seems to result in the huge memory usage noted earlier.

I suppose we could sed the -O3 out... but maybe people with 4GiB of RAM want the optimizations?  Seems to me, at the very least we need a warning about extreme RAM usage (c.f., eclipse-sdk ebuild which IIRC uses a eclass for this purpose).
Comment 16 Maxxer 2007-05-16 07:18:47 UTC
(In reply to comment #15)
> re: Comment #14: indeed, optimizations are at fault here.  However, changing
> CFLAGS in make.conf to remove -O is not sufficient because
> enblend-3.0/src/Makefile contains:
> 
> enblend_CXXFLAGS = -g -O3 -ffast-math -Wall ...
> 
> If I manually remove the -O3, the compilation uses less memory (about 300MiB
> from my estimates watching top).  Even -O seems to result in the huge memory
> usage noted earlier.
> 
> I suppose we could sed the -O3 out... but maybe people with 4GiB of RAM want
> the optimizations?  Seems to me, at the very least we need a warning about
> extreme RAM usage (c.f., eclipse-sdk ebuild which IIRC uses a eclass for this
> purpose).
> 

I'm in the same situation: neither enblend or hugin compile! It fills my ram and then fails. (512+512swap).
Shouldn't this be handled with a use flag or something like that?