[gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-01-20, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:

>> I believe he means that generally speaking, trying to build OO from source
>> on a low-end (and especially low RAM) machine is ill-advised and can often
>> be the cause of build failures as OO is well known to require a lot of RAM
>> and hdd space while it compiles.
>
> I know it needs 5gb+ of tmpdir space, but compiling it with 256mb may
> be futile :)

It's been chugging away for about 30 hours now, so we'll see. :)

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