On 2009-01-20, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2009-01-20, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> I believe he means that generally speaking, trying to build OO from source
>>> on a low-end (and especially low RAM) machine is ill-advised and can often
>>> be the cause of build failures as OO is well known to require a lot of RAM
>>> and hdd space while it compiles.
>>
>> I know it needs 5gb+ of tmpdir space, but compiling it with 256mb may
>> be futile :)
>
> It's been chugging away for about 30 hours now, so we'll see. :)
For the morbidly curious, he OOo emerge finished succesfully
after 34.77 hours. The machine has 256MB of RAM (PC133 SDRAM)
with 1GB of swap:
pavilion log # cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 6
model name : Celeron (Mendocino)
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 434.314
cache size : 128 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr
bogomips : 868.62
clflush size : 32
power management:
I don't yet know if OOo actually works (the machine is headless
and keyboardless at the moment).
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