Re: crazy resource requirements for thunderbird?

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost> writes:

> * On 2025-05-19 at 13:11 BST, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
>>I am trying to build thunderbird on NetBSD 10 amd64, pkgsrc-current, and
>>I have a 32GB tmpfs as /tmp.   That used to be ok, but with 138 I got a
>>no space on device error.
>>
>>This just seems crazy; 32 GB is enormous, and firefox is fine in much
>>less space.
>>
>>Are other people seeing this?  Is there anything to be done to have the
>>build use a reasonable amount of space?  (Yes, I know I could use a tmp
>>on real ssd for this.)
>
> Not an exact answer, but my tmpfs are much smaller than yours, and so
> I have an override for certain packages to use disk-backed WRKOBJDIR
> as they no longer fit in tmpfs:
>
>   https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgbuild/blob/master/include/wrkobjdir.mk

Thanks.  I do that too, on machines that have less ram.

> mail/thunderbird* has been in there from the beginning, so yeh it
> seems reasonable that it has grown a lot further since then.

Not really reasonable, but expected.  I do know what you mean...