On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:11:45PM +0100, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 08.11.2011 um 19:52 schrieb Jack Howarth: > > > I revived my old dual G5 and 'fink selfupdate' followed by 'fink > > update-all' > > builds the current gcc46-4.6.2-1000 packaging without complaint on > > powerpc-apple-darwin9. > > Could be the cause is disk space! When I returned home recently I had let > build the package with Apple's GCC 4.2 (by manipulating the sym-links in > /usr/bin). As with my first attempt I had a form on the screen telling me > that disk space was becoming short. Almost 8 min later the build process > stopped with exactly the same error message. > > After having cleaned the disk from the remains of gcc46-4.6.2-1000 package I > have left 2¾ GB. I'm going to remove unused localisation data and cache files > of my web browsers. How much free disk space do I need? The swap files are > created on another volume. > > -- > Greetings > > Pete
Pete, I would guess about 2.5-3 GB for the build directory itself in /sw/src/fink.build and whatever space is required for the destroot and deb packages. Jack > > Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never > been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, > cruel, grasping and unintelligent. > – H. L. Mencken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users