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On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:42:14PM +0100, kosmikus wrote: |
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> Over in the Gentoo Haskell team we have this problem that one of our |
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> ebuilds (gtk2hs) needs loads of memory to build. It uses this |
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> preprocessor build tool that needs about 400Mb of memory (that's |
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> resident RAM not swap friendly virtual space). This is not something we |
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> can easily change. |
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I've done a few ebuilds that require vast amounts of memory or diskspace |
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to build/install. Perhaps some common way of doing this in ebuilds would |
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go well with the system? |
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Eg |
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- OpenOffice needs ~4Gb of space to compile. |
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- For MySQL, under certain USE flags one of the files can use ~600mb of |
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memory when compiling with GCC. |
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As the requirements for a package can vary based on a number of things |
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or be reasonably fixed, I see a solution like this: |
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An ebuild defines two variables: |
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NEEDED_COMPILE_DISK |
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NEEDED_COMPILE_RAM |
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NEEDED_FINAL_DISK |
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NEEDED_FINAL_RAM |
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which should evaluate to a constant numeric value in Kb of the absolute |
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maximum. |
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For OpenOffice, this might be a base of 4Gb plus whatever else is needed |
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per language. |
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