Problems compiling xffm under NetBSD/sparc

[Biju Chacko]

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:03:06 +0300, Martti Kuparinen wrote:

> Chris Fuhrman wrote:
> 
> > Bad news is that I'm trying to compile xfce4 from packages on a 
> > SparcStation5 running NetBSD 1.6.1.  Things seem to go okay except when it 
> [...]
> > machine has 64MG of RAM w/ 128M swap.  When I do a top, I notice that the 
> > compile process is requesting a LOT of memory (upwards of 50M) so it's no 
> > wonder the poor box is struggling.
> 
> Yes, I had the same problem when compiling XFce on NetBSD/alpha with
> only 64 MB of RAM. I had, however, "enough" swap (1 GB) on that machine.
> In the end the compilation succeeded but it took few days as you
> might guess :-) And it was not quiet in that room as the disk was
> spinning like crazy...
> 
> So if you really want to test your SparcStation, add more swap (using a
> swapfile, no need to re-disklabel the disk) and let it run for a week
> or two :-)

Good grief! You really gotta do something about that damn glade interface,
Edscott. We're supposed to be a low-footprint DE! ;-)

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