On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 16:25:10 BST the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > SOLVED! > The gcc-6.4.0-r1 compiled with > MAKEOPTS="-j1" > > What is strange is that this is the second low profile system that > gcc-6.4.0-r1 failed to compile large package. My other boxed was 4-core > and 4GB of RAM and I had to switch to MAKEOPTS="-j1" > > The above system is: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz with 2GB of RAM > and "gcc-4.9.4" compiled "gcc-6.4.0-r1" with MAKEOPTS="-j5" OK > but when I switched/upgrade profile to "gcc-6.4.0-r1" it filed to > compile gcc-6.4.0 with MAKEOPTS="-j5" > I had lower MAKEOPTS to -j1 > > So it seems to me the gcc-6.4.0-r1 much more resource hungry or there is > a bug in it.
I have a similar system, but Atom N270. I wouldn't want to compile much on it, and certainly not GCC. I NFS-export its $PORTDIR to this much more powerful box, do the emerging here and then just install packages on the Atom. Still not exactly fast, but incomparably better. -- Regards Peter
