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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:42:01 -0500
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86
From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> 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?
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