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 1S0ecR-0005WQ-Pw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:46:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7677E0D9B; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:45:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 568B6E0DD1 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:42:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcit16 with SMTP id it16so1582143bkc.40 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:42:01 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of mikemol@gmail.com designates 10.204.10.80 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.204.10.80; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of mikemol@gmail.com designates 10.204.10.80 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=mikemol@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=mikemol@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.204.10.80]) by 10.204.10.80 with SMTP id o16mr1357899bko.50.1330026121577 (num_hops = 1); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:42:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oYCEEGL8Pr1LbX721HPUndQ7soUnP/6rBAjRLFrU4XQ=; b=QBO6DDXJG61qsBf3pJ9UMDS6AFeFt4AuIHNcw9XrjzEiL74GlE4mq/b4bowuDDhqZw Sl65U9cprLq65FvWM1i9wDVcu/OtLt70DGvzNrWIc34j14fnytTCSOOrrE9Hsw9uYdke W11/d0xkTfUHMRJKg6IjqtQt0sN3Smx5ZCYtg= 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 Received: by 10.204.10.80 with SMTP id o16mr1127082bko.50.1330026121377; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:42:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.14.19 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:42:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20120222002227.GA3081@ca.inter.net> <20120223102240.GB6656@Gee-Mi-Ni.epfl.ch> <201202231044.51216.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:42:01 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86 From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: fac63d91-8686-4c6f-96ed-e136b55d5fd3 X-Archives-Hash: 4e6d7565e6a8bb0341b265978f4ad62c On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 23/02/12 12:44, Mick wrote: >> >> 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 =C2=A03,61 GB =C2=A0disk space for the link stage >>>> & =C2=A0most/all of my =C2=A02 GB =C2=A0memory. >>> >>> >>> 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). =C2=A0I used 750M from that 4G for adding swap. =C2=A0Even= tually FF >> compiled fine. >> >> The irony is that older boxen which would benefit most from building fro= m >> source are constrained in resources to achieve this and have to resort t= o >> installing bin packages. > > > I doubt that the bin package will be slower than the one compiled from > source. =C2=A0I predict the reverse, in fact. =C2=A0The bin package will = perform > better. That seems a strange prediction. What drives that hunch? --=20 :wq