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On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 10:22:40 Willie WY Wong wrote: |
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> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:22:27PM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb |
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squawked: |
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> > I compiled FF 10.0.1 on amd64 without any problems : |
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> > it needed 3,61 GB disk space for the link stage |
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> > & most/all of my 2 GB memory. |
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> Argh. 3.6 diskspace and 2G memory? I guess it is finally getting to |
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> the point that my laptop cannot build firefox. Time to switch to the |
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> -bin I guess. |
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I've only got something like 625M RAM and around 4G disk space (for |
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var/portage). I used 750M from that 4G for adding swap. Eventually FF |
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compiled fine. |
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The irony is that older boxen which would benefit most from building from |
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source are constrained in resources to achieve this and have to resort to |
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installing bin packages. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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