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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gcc-6.4.0-r1::gentoo failed (compile phase)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 07:33:07
Message-Id: 3249657.gvEXaAqfzo@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gcc-6.4.0-r1::gentoo failed (compile phase) by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 16:25:10 BST thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
2 > SOLVED!
3 > The gcc-6.4.0-r1 compiled with
4 > MAKEOPTS="-j1"
5 >
6 > What is strange is that this is the second low profile system that
7 > gcc-6.4.0-r1 failed to compile large package. My other boxed was 4-core
8 > and 4GB of RAM and I had to switch to MAKEOPTS="-j1"
9 >
10 > The above system is: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz with 2GB of RAM
11 > and "gcc-4.9.4" compiled "gcc-6.4.0-r1" with MAKEOPTS="-j5" OK
12 > but when I switched/upgrade profile to "gcc-6.4.0-r1" it filed to
13 > compile gcc-6.4.0 with MAKEOPTS="-j5"
14 > I had lower MAKEOPTS to -j1
15 >
16 > So it seems to me the gcc-6.4.0-r1 much more resource hungry or there is
17 > a bug in it.
18
19 I have a similar system, but Atom N270. I wouldn't want to compile much on it,
20 and certainly not GCC. I NFS-export its $PORTDIR to this much more powerful
21 box, do the emerging here and then just install packages on the Atom. Still
22 not exactly fast, but incomparably better.
23
24 --
25 Regards
26 Peter

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