Re: Help with build.sh error - killed

On 12/17/20 5:31 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:

> Bob McGowan <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Mac B&W G3, 128 MB RAM, Mac OS 9.2.2 on a 9G SCSI disk, second SCSI
>> (LVD, 30+G) on Adaptec 39160 controller, 400 MHz CPU, BootROM 1.1f,
>> OpenFirmware 3.1.1
> Other people who are actually running macppc* may comment, but this
> strikes me as not really enough RAM to run builds these days reasonably.
>
> * I have a few macppc notebooks, but haven't set them up.  They have
>    512M or 1G though.
>
> I would suggest finding another computer to do builds on.  One of the
> great things about NetBSD is that the build.sh process is fully cross.
> So you can build NetBSD/macppc on a NetBSD/amd64 machine, or even on
> Linux/something  or FreBSD/something.   If you have a spare x86 box,
> with even 1G of RAM, I urge you to set it up with NetBSD and use it to
> crossbuild for macppc.
>
> If you had 1G or even 512M on the mac, I wouldn't push you so much in
> this direction.  But 128M feels like asking for trouble unnecessarily.
>
> Of course, someone with an actual macppc with that amount of RAM doing
> builds will be able to speak to this more authoritatively than me.

Strange to say, it never crossed my mind to try cross compiling. I will 
do that.

I should probably try getting additional ram for it, regardless, if I 
expect to actually do anything with the machine.

Thanks,

Bob