I have a machine that could do it - Ubuntu Linux 10.04, but I have never built anything of this complexity. This is a little bigger than ./configure, make, make install isn't it?
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Donald Whytock <dwhyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I have an XP machine that does file/print/tivo duty that I could > let grind for a little while, but it occurred to me that I could > thumb-drive Linux and try building for that too. Probably more > easily, since I don't have the GNU set for XP yet. > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Eike Rathke <o...@erack.de> wrote: >> Hi Donald, >> >> On Tuesday, 2011-08-30 18:38:41 -0400, Donald Whytock wrote: >> >>> How much disk space are we talking for a build? >> >> Roughly 8GB (for git svn, mere svn +2GB or so), plus 5GB ccache if >> affordable, speeds up things a lot when rebuilding something. >> >>> Could a thumb-drive Linux install handle it? >> >> Build _on_ a thumb drive? How many days are you willing to wait? And are >> you willing to sacrifice the life time of it, as a build is heavily i/o >> bound? Or did you mean just the system on the thumb drive and build on >> a hard disk? Given enough RAM so that the needed executables and header >> files are cached that might be possible, never tried that. >> >> Eike > -- This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com
