[gentoo-amd64] Re: firefox-bin crashing a few times every day

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> posted
d257c3560710291145p65425e7ao9a55c53484ccaf0f@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on  Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:45:52 +0100:

> i'd suggest you install ccache before compiling if you don't yet use it
> and to add the option --buildpkg to emerge, so that you can have the
> firefox package built for your particular system. this is useful also
> for long time compiling packages as gtk+,qt or kdelibs and kdebase. if
> you'd later need to reinstall them (for example the expat-2 update) you
> can install them in a matter of little time. just be aware that the
> packaging requires additional disk space to package the files once
> they're compiled. i didn't experience crashes in the last 6 months.

I have FEATURES=ccache and buildpkg both on, so no need to add the emerge 
parameter, but yes, I've been doing this for some time, and seriously 
recommend it (particularly the buildpkg part, ccache is covered in the 
handbook reasonably well already) myself.

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