Re: TiBook w/-current semi-comatose building boost-libs

On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 02:56, John D. Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Running with MAKE_JOBS=1 gets much further building "qt5-base", but
> eventually a really gargantuan compile (qxkbcommon.cpp) runs it out
> of memory with most of swap still available.  At this point the machine
> is completely unresponsive.
>
> I seem to recall that its not possible to put more than 1GB RAM in a
> 667MHz TiBook.  I have an original G4-gigabit-ethernet with 2GB RAM,
> but it has a bad power supply (actually just the 27Vdc daughter card
> to supply power through the ADC video card, but without that, the machine
> won't turn on at all).

Just in terms of another data point might it be possible to get some
local disk for swap - a partition on the internal disk or even a USB
device?

David