On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 5:49 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ArchLinux installers of guix should be aware that the standard size of >> /tmp on a 4 GB computer is too small for a full install of guix. >> >> Please enlarge your swap file and resize /tmp to like 20 GB, else >> you will repeatedly break during >> >> guix package -i hello >> >> After those mods I successfully ran guix on Manjaro (Arch derivate). > > What exactly goes wrong when /tmp is less that 4 GB? There are a handful > of packages that require more than 4 GB of storage while building, but I > don't believe any of them are required to build hello. > > > after > guix package -i hello > > there was 3 hours of building on a desktop machine. looked like a > make world > build was going on. > > I wonder why, since on a guixSD it installing hello was much faster.
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