XBMC

[ASpotySpot]

I don't have enough space on my sd card to compile xbmc for Arch.
Could someone who's had success please post a completed build? (or link to one)

[Jim JKla]

You are going to need to tell people what size card you are working with.

Just a question are you using all of your card?

Images are typically optimized to fit on smaller cards and then expanded once they are on the final destination.

That expansion is a manual process. Semi automatic (script) on wheezy

[ASpotySpot]

Yeah using full card, tried building using the PKGBUILD at
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=60530

[Jim JKla]

You still don't say what size if you want an image uploaded somewhere torrent would be best but they still need to know if they post a 32gig image and you are using a 8gig card you are going to be just as stuffed as you are now

[ASpotySpot]

I'm confused, when built won't it be the same size regardless...
I mean the PKGBUILD will just produce a .tar.xz to install with pacman right?

EDIT: I may be completely misunderstanding the error message..
cc1: out of memory allocating 16917208 bytes after total of 76795904 bytes

I just assumed this meant space on sd card but now I'm thinking ram issues?
I'm using the arm240.elf file though?

[Jim JKla]

I imaged wheezy onto an 8gig sd card did the startup expanded to use all of the card loaded some stuff not a lot made a backup image and it's big lotts bigger. like circa 7.4gig

So just tell us what size card are you using there is just the posibility that your trying to get a quart into a pint pot.

It's not a difficult question

[ASpotySpot]

Its a 4 GB card.
df reports it as 3.6G.
With nothing installed except the xbmc dependencies and base-devel I have 2.4G free may be able to get a few more megabytes out of that.

[pepedog]

You would need a swap file, search these forums for swapon
http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/
Swap on an sd card is a bad thing, use sparingly.

Someone has built a package
http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=3004

[ASpotySpot]

Thanks a ton pepedog

[alias_neo]

So can I install this through pacman yet?

Just wondering if it's worth switching from Raspbmc to Arch with XBMC but I don't have the time or patience to build it myself thee days.

[pepedog]

Yes, you can
pacman -U http://urlofthefile
Must say it didn't run for me, but has run for others.
I do run xbmc on my spare rpi, but use the openelec version