On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 08:59:09PM -0400, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:13:19 +0100
> Ken Moffat via blfs-support <blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 05:28:42PM -0400, Scott Andrews via
> > blfs-support wrote:
> > > On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 22:10:37 +0100 Ken Moffat via blfs-support
> > > <blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > For a desktop machine, 2GB is woefully inadequate nowadays :-(
> > > > (And if it is a server, nss might be an uncommon choice).
> > > >
> > > > ĸen
> > >
> > > Maybe from your point a view. I am using raspbery pi 3 and 4 as
> > > desktop machines and servers. They work well.
> > >
> > Great, for whatever packages you are compiling on your desktop. But
> > the OP was using x86_64 and on that 2GB is woefully inadequate for
> > comiling a modern desktop - unless someone is using a single core
> > machine, and I do not recall when those were last produced in
> > x86_64. To be honest I could not contemplate building and
> > maintaining an x86_64 BLFS machine with less than 4 cores and 2GB
> > RAM per core (for things like rust and qtwebengine). Oh, my laptop
> > has 8 cores but a pitiful amount of RAM (6.7GB according to top,
> > some is used for the video) and on that I have to shut down almost
> > everything and force rust and qtwebengine to use fewer cores when I
> > rebuild those or firefox, and it is painful.
> >
> > For i686 I have no idea how much RAM is needed to build and maintain
> > a BLFS *desktop* system.
> >
> > I assume you are using 32-bit for at least pi3. Out of interest,
> > Which graphical browser do you build for your desktop ?
> >
> > ĸen
>
> Chromium and firefox-esr.
If you built chromium then your skills are much higher than mine.
> The build machine is a raspberry pi 2
>
> A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU
> 1GB RAM
> 100 Base Ethernet
> 4 USB ports
> 40 GPIO pins
> Full HDMI port
> Combined 3.5mm audio jack and composite video
> Camera interface (CSI)
> Display interface (DSI)
> Micro SD card slot
> VideoCore IV 3D graphics core
>
> FLAGS are as follows
> # ARM settings, RPI2
> MARCH="armv7-a+neon-vfpv4"
> MTUNE="cortex-a7"
> MFLOAT="hard"
> MFPU="neon-vfpv4"
>
> %_optflags -O2 -pipe -march=${MARCH} -mtune=${MTUNE}
> -mfloat-abi=${MFLOAT} -mfpu=${MFPU} -fPIC -fomit-frame-pointer
> -ftree-vectorize
> %_system_type --with-arch=${MARCH} --with-fpu=${MFPU}
> --with-float=${MFLOAT} --with-arch-directory=arm
>
> I can build LFS-9.0 complete with kernel, dovecot, exim, dns and rpm
> in less than 24 hours.
>
> I don't have the time for Chromium and firefox-esr, as I didn't keep
> the logs for the old build system. I am currently updating my build
> scripts to make the simpler.
>
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