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Re: which of the two ArchLinux PKGBUILDs is better ? -- guix on Arch su
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Thompson, David |
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Re: which of the two ArchLinux PKGBUILDs is better ? -- guix on Arch su errors |
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Wed, 7 Sep 2016 10:06:45 -0400 |
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 5:49 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> ArchLinux installers of guix should be aware that the standard size of
>> /tmp on a 4 GB computer is too small for a full install of guix.
>>
>> Please enlarge your swap file and resize /tmp to like 20 GB, else
>> you will repeatedly break during
>>
>> guix package -i hello
>>
>> After those mods I successfully ran guix on Manjaro (Arch derivate).
>
> What exactly goes wrong when /tmp is less that 4 GB? There are a handful
> of packages that require more than 4 GB of storage while building, but I
> don't believe any of them are required to build hello.
>
>
> after
> guix package -i hello
>
> there was 3 hours of building on a desktop machine. looked like a
> make world
> build was going on.
>
> I wonder why, since on a guixSD it installing hello was much faster.
You don't have substitutes enabled. Enable them. See the manual for details.
- Dave