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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GCC compilation disk space
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:10:42
Message-Id: 20081008141347.GB1586@princeton.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] GCC compilation disk space by Alan McKinnon
1 On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:34:52AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked:
2 > > Expected behaviour. >=gcc-4.2 compiles about three times longer than
3 > > <gcc-4.2 (IIRC 4.1.2 was the last gcc that I could compile in under 30
4 > > minutes; the current one takes about 1.5 hours), and requires loads of
5 > > disk.
6 >
7 > gcc is getting like ooO :-)
8 >
9
10 Any idea why?
11
12 Turns out that 4.3.2 required (on my laptop) just over 1 gig of space
13 to compile. It is alright now, but if it gets any higher, I don't
14 think my laptop with its puny 30 G harddrive will be able to handle
15 building gcc. Will we see something like gcc-bin?
16
17 W
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