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Old 30th August 2011
ocicat ocicat is offline
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
You haven't started building php5 yet, you are still building its vast array of dependencies.
Taking jggimi's statement another step, building any of the moderately sized ports such as PHP will require building a number of collateral packages needed in support of ultimately building PHP itself. Unless you need some of these collateral dependencies in other ports, they will never be needed on your system again. They were only required to aid in building PHP.

2GB for /usr is seriously under-estimated when it comes to building ports. How much disk space is required depends upon how many applications are being built. As an example, I currently have the following usage:
  • /usr/ports: 334M
  • /usr/ports/distfiles: 3.5G
  • /usr/ports/packages: 3.2G
  • /usr/ports/pobj: 36.4G
...but I have also built more than simply PHP. Again how much disk space is required for these partitions all depends upon how much & what is being built.

Using the project's pre-built packages is a far simpler solution.

Last edited by ocicat; 30th August 2011 at 01:37 PM.
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