03-19-2022, 12:01 PM
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Edit Reason: Mentioning RPi build limits described on stackexchange
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(03-19-2022, 05:44 AM)wibble Wrote: IIRC the gentoo build process does an early test for >=4GB RAM before attempting to compile the major browsers, and even then you'll run into heavy swap use. You can probably either build natively with something like an 8GB Pi4, or crosscompile on a more capable x86_64 machine which is almost certainly how the mobian packages are built. That should allow you to build a package with all the correct dependencies to run.
https://wiki.debian.org/CrossCompiling
Thank you for your reply!
I appreciate the concept of (cross)compiling and after a quick skim of your link, don’t feel like I would have too much difficulty following along if I can already follow native, on-target compilation instructions, however what I’m really not sure about is how I would then transfer the build from the build box to the PinePhone - would it be as simple as copying a single package (or entire build directory?) to a USB and then from there to the PinePhone via a hub? The only other device I have with a Linux environment is a 8Gb RPi 4 but was discouraged from trying to compile on that by stackexchange posts stating that 16Gb RAM with 8Gb ZRAM swap was needed.
Is this the only realistically “correct” way to go about getting Icecat on Mobian on PinePhone, or are there some further, non-symlink steps I can take with the approach I took installing the prebuilt package from The Fedora Project?