> A little more to report on...I don't know how to understand this - Indeed, and that deserves some thought.
> > As I mentioned, I repeated the whole exercise - right from setting up a > new VM with identical settings. Followed all the steps exactly, once > again. And everything is working fine for tcl-8.6.8. It is compiling > even with -O2. > > Now I have 2 VMs with identical settings where one fails to compile > tcl-8.6.8 with -O2 and the other where it is fine. I don't know how to > interpret this. I am accepting that I might have made a mistake in the > first instance, but the failure was very subtle, undetectable and I > don't know how to understand the peculiar behavior (compiling only with > -O2 optimization fails, but -O1 succeeds). Personally, I *wouldn't* recommend building in a VM. One just adds one more level of uncertainty, the virtual environment. I prefer "bare iron". When, as it inevitably does, it comes to trouble shooting, one must have someplace solid to stand on. > ... But if you want to go on to build a desktop with a modern > graphical browser then 8GB RAM (and even with that, maybe swap if you > are doing other things during the compilation) is more comfortable. > > For a server, it probably varies between different packages. Some > are fairly light to build. > > So no, for LFS-only, 6GB should be adequate. And I suspect many > ... Just as a data point, I'm running 7.10, XCFE, Firefox, LibreOffice on an old Conroe Core2-Duo 6700 (non E-), 4GB. This is my "daily driver". It's "fast enough", and that's all I need. I don't need a computer so fast it will finish things before I've got it all thought out, if you know what I mean. Sometimes it can be a good thing when one can't just "brute force it" and has to do it with some finesse. I'll do building on an old 12GB i7-940, so's I can use -j8. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
