Re: Impossible to build MongoDB44 on FreeBSD 12.4?

On Wed, 31 May 2023 05:19:31 +0000 (UTC)
Matthew Petach <mpetach@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Hi Mark,
> I was rather hoping to avoid mixing one pre-built package with dependencies on older versions of packages on a system with everything else built from the ports tree, but I may not have much of a choice.    :(
> I just wish I could understand why the system keeps complaining of running out of swap space, no matter how much swap I add.  ^_^;
> Thanks!  :)
> Matt
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>     On Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 08:57:30 PM PDT, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:  
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>  On 5/31/23 02:07, Matthew Petach wrote:
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>    Does anyone have any advice on how I can get my build to complete? (note that the max RAM the box supports is 4GB, so saying "add more RAM"  is pointless). 
>   Thanks for any tips or hints you might be able to give me--this is getting really frustrating.  
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>  Have you tried using a binary package, instead?
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>  Mark.
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If you have the disk space, make a swap file. I had to make one to build some ports. It was long ago so I don't remember the command to make it but my fstab has this:

# AUX swapfile
md0             none            swap    sw,file=/usr/swap0,late 0    0

Mine is 1G in size.
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