On 27/04/21 23:00, Michael wrote:
> There's three options, I can think of:
> 
> 1. Use dev-lang/rust-bin, as Matt suggested above.
> 
> 2. Buy more RAM, or use a surrogate PC with more RAM to cross-compile it.
> 
> 3. Use a partition with enough space on it to bind mount /var/tmp/portage, 
> for 
> this package only.
> 
> I use the 3rd option, but I'm wondering if option 1 may be the smartest move 
> for my needs.

4. Add gazillibytes of swap. With a maximum of 16GB on my mobo, my two
disks each have a 32GB swap partition so that's 80GB of "ram" available
to my system. My /var/tmp/portage tmpfs is 30GB.

So obviously I use option 4 :-)

Cheers,
Wol

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