----- Original Message ----- From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-kde@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [kde3] Appeal for help - powerful box needed
> > So, I'm making an appeal for help in the form of access to a build box, > > which must have the following: > > * SSH access > > * Reasonable (preferably >1gig) CPU > > * A fair bit of RAM > > * Decent connectivity (enough to pass KDE debs back and forth) > > * A chroot for me to work in (I need Qt3, KDE3, etc, installed > > to build). > > > > *Sigh* I know how you feel. Just building kdelibs takes 1.5GB and several > hours to compile on my machine. Currently I have about 140MB of free disk > space left and thats after juggling partitions, NFS mounting /home etc. > So my attempts to follow KDE development have ground to a halt. > > One thing you might want to look into is SourceForge has a "compile farm" > perhaps they can arrange for you to be able to set up your chroot on a > fast alpha or something? > > Of course if some kind soul out there has a good machine you could use > that's even better (and if they don't mind giving me an account, I might > be able to help.) well, I'm looking at replacing my dual 466 celeron w/ 576(?) megs of ram - its not the speediest thing on the planet but when i replace it I was thinking if installing buildd and having optimised builds for all my packages ;) I have lots of disk space, I'll let you guys know if it happens soon.