install and upgrade scipy encounter disk space problem

[Ke Wu]

Thanks Ryan,

I tried +gcc45 and something happened, I traced the delta of my disk space and found that when the scipy is building, the swap files in /private/var/vm/ were getting abnormal bigger and bigger. 

And I don’t really know what the swap files are….

So that I am no sure if it is because of my machine’s setting or because of the port that while installing scipy on my machine, they got that huge…



On Oct 23, 2011, at 8:26 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> The very largest of our ports might require 1GB of disk space to build; using 30GB of disk space for a port build is completely abnormal. I don't know what it's doing. Perhaps it's related to #31604 [1]. Try the gcc45 variant instead?
> 
> sudo port clean py27-scipy
> sudo port install py27-scipy +gcc45
> 
> 
> [1] https://trac.macports.org/ticket/31604
>