From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:44:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201202231044.51216.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120223102240.GB6656@Gee-Mi-Ni.epfl.ch>
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On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 10:22:40 Willie WY Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:22:27PM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb
squawked:
> > I compiled FF 10.0.1 on amd64 without any problems :
> > it needed 3,61 GB disk space for the link stage
> > & most/all of my 2 GB memory.
>
> Argh. 3.6 diskspace and 2G memory? I guess it is finally getting to
> the point that my laptop cannot build firefox. Time to switch to the
> -bin I guess.
I've only got something like 625M RAM and around 4G disk space (for
var/portage). I used 750M from that 4G for adding swap. Eventually FF
compiled fine.
The irony is that older boxen which would benefit most from building from
source are constrained in resources to achieve this and have to resort to
installing bin packages.
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Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-23 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-21 22:03 [gentoo-user] Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86 Mick
2012-02-21 22:34 ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-21 22:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-22 0:22 ` Philip Webb
2012-02-22 7:11 ` Mick
2012-02-23 8:33 ` Mick
2012-02-23 10:22 ` Willie WY Wong
2012-02-23 10:44 ` Mick [this message]
2012-02-23 11:58 ` Walter Dnes
2012-02-23 19:36 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-23 19:42 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-23 19:55 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-23 20:24 ` Willie WY Wong
2012-02-23 20:43 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-23 22:21 ` Willie WY Wong
2012-02-23 22:43 ` Paul Hartman
2012-02-23 22:44 ` Paul Hartman
2012-02-24 3:08 ` »Q«
2012-02-23 21:50 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-23 20:11 ` Dale
2012-02-23 20:22 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-24 0:34 ` Dale
2012-02-24 1:13 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-25 6:22 ` Walter Dnes
2012-02-25 11:30 ` Adam Carter
2012-02-25 20:28 ` Walter Dnes
2012-02-25 11:43 ` Dale
2012-02-25 13:50 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-25 14:28 ` Dale
2012-02-23 11:30 ` Philip Webb
2012-02-22 1:11 ` walt
2012-02-22 15:26 ` »Q«
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