From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 1 01:11:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC417106564A for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 01:11:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657418FC0A for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 01:11:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.193]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F5B5C21 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 11:16:30 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4D1E7E78.6080501@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:08:08 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101227 Thunderbird/3.0.11 ThunderBrowse/3.3.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <4D1B044F.6050903@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <86fwtgob5w.fsf@gmail.com> <4D1BBE7F.5060202@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4D1CB795.5090506@DataIX.net> <4D1D6C64.2090604@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: libxul build hit the roof! X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 01:11:36 -0000 On 01/01/11 07:07, Chris Rees wrote: > I would argue that anyone messing with CFLAGS should expect and know how to > fix trouble like that. This would also save noise. > Unless they're just following a HowTo off a site to improve performance. Besides that, is it really that hard to offer a warning? > Chris > > -------- > > Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do > threading. > On 31 Dec 2010 05:42, "Da Rock" > wrote: > >> On 12/31/10 02:47, jhell wrote: >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 12/29/2010 18:04, Da Rock wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I got it worked out in the end, but it still took 2G+ memory to build; >>>> so my suggestion is a warning to EU in the make process that this could >>>> take a lot of memory to build, and some suggestions as to how to prevent >>>> or workaround the problem so they don't go whining on the list about it >>>> being broken. >>>> >>>> >>> Turning off OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS for 'libxul, firefox*& thunderbird*' ports >>> would have stopped all this swapping from happening. >>> >>> Is there a specific reason why you changed it from its defaults ? is >>> there really anything to gain ? in respect to 'libxul'... >>> >>> >> I see your point and I'll raise you a does it matter? There are sites >> and howto's on improving performance overall, especially regarding the >> revival of older machines. The recommendation on a lot of these is to >> put CFLAGS+= -O -pipe in the make.conf. If they already have low memory, >> then they'll be up the creek won't they? And the updates won't happen so >> they'll simply be broken and unsure of why. >> >> I'd say a simple note to say whats up is definitely in order, to prevent >> a lot of traffic. I don't believe thats too hard to do, given jdk16 and >> OOO have messages reflecting HDD space. I only noticed the issue because >> I watched it happen- given the little relevance that most (including >> yourself) put on it, it would easily be overlooked unless a simple >> solution was presented. The only message you get from say portupgrade is >> new compiler error, most would then put it in the too hard basket. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >