I keep running out of space compiling glibc!

When I read that guidance saying "you should have at least 1 GB free", I thought "1GB. OK, I've got that spare .. " and partitined the system appropriately.

Of course I'm copying everything into the partition as I need it - but I'm still running out of space. I've run strip on the binaries, which may help - I'm trying again now, but does anyone have any other suggestions?

I know changing the optimisation on glibc might not be such a great idea.

Cheers.

Bert

Are you on chapter 6? you can try moving your /static directory to a different partition, and then mounting it to $LFS/static

I think that there is a optimazition flag that will do it's thing, as long as it doesn't make the binary larger. I think it's "march=0s" but I don't know for sure... maybe something to look into though.

well, that's all I can think of... good luck

I'm guessing you are not removing the source directories after you have installed a package from chapter 5, right? For example you'd still have the bash-2.05a, gcc-* and other directories from chapter 5 around. They take up hundreds of megabytes of space and are a total waste of diskspace: you can't use those source tree again anyways.

Chapter 2 tells you to remove source directories as soon as you have used them to install something.

If you do that, then 1 GB is enough space to build LFS with.

However, for a full fledged Linux system you might want more than a mere 1 GB. After you finish installing LFS you probably want to install more software. You need to have room for those packages too.

I was thinking about this.... can't you just have your $LFS directory on one of your other partitions (hopefully with more space), and then just copy it over when you're done?

Thanks for your help. I Parted the partition to 2 GB. Just to be safe.

Cheers
Bert