To clarify, building everything except gcc works fine - its gcc itself thats problematic
BillK On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 15:52 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > In /etc/fstab I have (this is a diskless atom based PXE system): > > shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec > 0 0 > > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs > size=1250M,mode=1777,noatime,auto 0 0 > tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs size=10m,noatime,auto > 0 0 > tmpfs /var/run tmpfs size=10m,noatime,auto > 0 0 > tmpfs /var/cache/hald tmpfs size=10m,noatime,auto > 0 0 > > > and in /etc/conf.d/local.start: > mkdir /tmp/portage > mkdir /tmp/portage/tmp > mkdir /tmp/portage/distfiles > > and it /etc/make.conf > > DISTDIR="/tmp/portage/distfiles" > PORTAGE_TMPDIR='/tmp/portage/tmp' > PORTDIR='/tmp/portage/' > PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" > PORTAGE_BINHOST="http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/amd64/"; > PKGDIR="/tmp/portage/packages/" > > > It works fine except for gcc where with 3G of ram, everything in tmpfs > and swap over nfs works randomly due to running out of ram. > > BillK > > > > > On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 00:55 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:27:54PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > > > > > Looks like I can tweak stuff in the ebuild via "mozconfig_annotate" > > > lines, and then... > > > > > > ebuild firefox-3.6.9.ebuild manifest > > > emerge firefox > > > > Something isn't working. I put in > > mozconfig_annotate '' --disable-pango > > mozconfig_annotate '' --disable-oji --disable-mathml > > > > into the ebuild (a copy in my local overlay) and ebuild-manifested it. > > Portage said it was building from the overlay, but "about:buildconfig" > > shows them as being enabled. I have been able to > > --disable-necko-wifi (WTF is *THAT* in a browser, fercryingoutloud?). > > > > Any ideas? A long time ago, in a place far away, I used to build > > Mozilla 0.9x "the hard way", because the downloadable binary was > > painfully slow on my machine. And later on Phoenix 0.9x (remember > > that?). I've forgotten most of what I learned, but I can follow the > > instructions at https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Simple_Firefox_build > > I have a couple of questions before proceeding... > > 1) what do I have to set to force all files to be installed in /opt or > > in /usr/local ? > > 2) I've got 8 gigs of ram. How do I force the compiler to use /dev/shm > > as the scratch directory ? > > > -- William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> Home in Perth!
