On Tuesday, 27 April 2021 22:17:20 BST Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 20:53 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I know I could plump for the -bin package. Maybe I should. > > I did, recently. > > Anecdotes/opinions/rant follows. Feel free to ignore, I just wanted to > vent because the issue is fresh in my mind. > > ... > > Some things just aren't worth building from source. Rust is so heavy, > convoluted, ill-supported and slow that I just can't be bothered to > spend hours of compile time on getting a slightly-less-awful version of > it for my system(s). And given how a desktop environment now requires > a Javascript engine to parse configurations (that's a separate > complaint), and spidermonkey requires rust to build, there's no > avoiding it for my needs, so I just cut bait. > > The same can be said for GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler). I can't > do my day-to-day without shellcheck, but spending 8 hours to build a > compiler for shellcheck (and sometimes pandoc) frankly sucks. This > isn't gentoo's fault, or anyone's fault really. Languages are complex > and the code to bootstrap compile them isn't easy. Its above my skill > level, that's for sure. > > 8+ years of gentoo has taught me many lessons, chief among them is to > pick my battles. If there is some must-have or must-avoid USE flag, or > a killer feature that's missing from the bin build, then I'll swallow > the pill and take the time to compile it. If not, I've got better > things to do with my electricity.
Heh! I had a go more than once increasing RAM allocated to /var/tmp/portage also running out of memory. I think this is the second time it happened to me in the last 6 months or so. There's a bug on this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757276 There's three options, I can think of: 1. Use dev-lang/rust-bin, as Matt suggested above. 2. Buy more RAM, or use a surrogate PC with more RAM to cross-compile it. 3. Use a partition with enough space on it to bind mount /var/tmp/portage, for this package only. I use the 3rd option, but I'm wondering if option 1 may be the smartest move for my needs.
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