From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S0XN3-0005EU-O3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:02:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 370C9E0C9E; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:01:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1827E0C97 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:00:52 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AokGAKU/KE9Ld+I8/2dsb2JhbACBX48mjVV5iHCeGYYZBIZQjX6GS4QL X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,1,1325480400"; d="scan'208";a="164303733" Received: from 75-119-226-60.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([75.119.226.60]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2012 07:00:51 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:58:33 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:58:33 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86 Message-ID: <20120223115833.GA2237@waltdnes.org> References: <20120222002227.GA3081@ca.inter.net> <20120223102240.GB6656@Gee-Mi-Ni.epfl.ch> <201202231044.51216.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201202231044.51216.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 2633a100-5e44-46fa-94dc-1055004af605 X-Archives-Hash: 4c48a033e1ffd9536066ddaac3ae9974 On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:44:36AM +0000, Mick wrote > 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. An external USB drive, with appropriate changes in /etc/make.conf, plus an overnight build run might be the answer. Also, I'm trying www-client/midori as a browser. It's based on webkit, like most Android browsers. Still a bit rough around the edges. -- Walter Dnes