If anyone wants to know why I hate firefox

Posted by nuxi on 2007-Nov-23 at 04:15:00 in Computers (Login to reply)

1.5 hours into the build process:

ar: libgklayout.a: No space left on device

What kind of build system needs (and I quote from their own website):

* 512MB RAM with lots of available swap space. For static and XULRunner builds, 1GB RAM minimum. Additional RAM will significantly decrease build time.
* For debug builds: at least 1.5 GB free disk space (2 GB recommended)
* For optimized builds: at least 300 MB free disk space (500 MB recommended)

WTF??? Can someone please tell me why the system requirements for building a web browser are higher than that for building my operating system!

I had 1 GB, I figured that was good enough for somewhere between a debug build and a real optimized build. I'm using the debian package to build it with a small patch I'm testing.