Re: [gentoo-user] Error message for several ebuilds when updating world.

[Walter Dnes]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 01:31:45AM -0600, Dale wrote

> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6878530.html?sid=924b3c65e5584c4dc81672583d97b85d#6878530
>
> You need more ram, swap space or maybe drive space for the portage work
> directory.  Basically, it's running out of space somewhere.

  Thanks for the pointer.  I think I've figured it it out now.  When I
set up my laptop, I copied most of /etc/make.conf verbatim from my
desktop, including the line...
PORTAGE_TMPFS="/dev/shm"

  That works just fine on my desktop with 8 gigs of ram.  Unfortunately,
my laptop only has 4 gigs, so that doesn't work quite so well.  I've
changed that line to...
PORTAGE_TMPFS="/tmp"

  Builds will be slower, no doubt.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>