Re: compiling XFree86

[Robert Reid <robreid@cse.unsw.edu.au>]

Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:44:50AM +0200, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
>
> > Noah Ackerman <noah@nack.org> writes:
> >
> >
> > > It actually is quite simple, but takes a lot of disk space for the sources.  
> >
> > I tried to build the Debian xfree86 package, in order to try
> > fixing Bug#174282.  It ran out of space. :-(  I tried NFS next
> > but it was awfully slow (ran for 11 hours, then failed) even
> > though I have a 100 Mbps network.  My AS500 has 512 MiB of RAM;
> > would Coda or NBD let it cache files better?
>
>
> Sounds odd to me. I compiled XFree86 over 100MB NFS and I'm sure it didn't take
> 11 hours on my pws433.
>
> Does the NFS server have "sync" enabled ?
>
> patrick

I'm pretty sure most of the disk hog when compiling is the debug version of 
the server, which Branden introduced in the 4.2.0 pre packages.  If there is a 
way to turn this off easily (not sure - ask the debian-x list if no-one else 
here knows) then you might get away with the local compile (or it would be 
much less/quicker to compile over NFS)

Rob