Portfile for CEF: Build from source or pre-built binary?

[Jason Liu]

On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 10:19 PM Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

> Most of the buildbot workers have about 90GB disk space total, sometimes
> with as little as 15GB free. mpbb is currently coded to attempt to free
> disk space by uninstalling ports until at least 15GB is free.


Well, considering that CEF needs ~200 GB of free disk space, that would
seem to preclude the possibility of building from source on the MacPorts
buildbots, no?

-- 
Jason Liu


On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 10:19 PM Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

> On Aug 6, 2023, at 16:57, Jason Liu wrote:
> >
> > On their website, CEF states that building from source on a Mac requires
> "At least 16 GB of RAM and 200 GB of free disk space" [1].
>
> My opinion remains that most ports should build from source if that's
> possible. If a project is closed source and only a binary is available,
> then obviously we can't build from source.
>
> Ports that require an unusually large amount of free disk space should be
> coded to verify that enough free disk space exists first (e.g. in a
> pre-fetch block).
>
> Most of the buildbot workers have about 90GB disk space total, sometimes
> with as little as 15GB free. mpbb is currently coded to attempt to free
> disk space by uninstalling ports until at least 15GB is free.
>
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