On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 01:31:45AM -0600, Dale wrote > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6878530.html?sid=924b3c65e5584c4dc81672583d97b85d#6878530 > > You need more ram, swap space or maybe drive space for the portage work > directory. Basically, it's running out of space somewhere.
Thanks for the pointer. I think I've figured it it out now. When I set up my laptop, I copied most of /etc/make.conf verbatim from my desktop, including the line... PORTAGE_TMPFS="/dev/shm" That works just fine on my desktop with 8 gigs of ram. Unfortunately, my laptop only has 4 gigs, so that doesn't work quite so well. I've changed that line to... PORTAGE_TMPFS="/tmp" Builds will be slower, no doubt. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
