Building glibc (was: [Fwd: Questions on isc-dhcp])

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 07:18:23AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:

> I don't have time or space to build libc6 on my qemu box. Hurd
> might be possible, but definitely not libc (I've built libc before on
> much more capable systems than in a VM), and the space and memory
> requirements are very large.

FWIW, I've built glibc a couple of times on my box with 512 MiB of RAM,
1 GHz CPU (running Hurd natively), and using about 1 GiB of disk space.
Takes half a day, but it's doable... There are some other packages that
are worse than that.

-antrik-