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!