From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rzzzh-0004yb-0y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:23:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D77C2E1BB9; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:23:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D7D4E18D1 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:22:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1020D2EA026 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:22:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id H5nkU4Bw5-gw for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:22:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from ca.inter.net (unknown [74.205.215.247]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id B251C2EA277 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:22:27 -0500 (EST) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:22:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:22:27 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86 Message-ID: <20120222002227.GA3081@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20120221233428.597b3e2c@weird.wonkology.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 91e60c67-7ee2-49f0-80de-97dea8a15858 X-Archives-Hash: e5087ac5a4366705f44bed19690aa370 120222 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 22/02/12 00:34, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Mick writes: >>> The latest stable x86 firefox fails to compile: >> [... big linking being done ...] >>> collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] >>> make[5]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1 >> [...] >> Do you have enough memory on that machine, is swap space activated? >> The linking phase will need a lot of memory. >> Although I don't understand why ld would terminate with signal 9 then. > When there's not enough memory available, signal 9 is actually > how the system recovers from that, by killing the offending process. > dmesg should have given a clue about what happened in that case. I compiled FF 10.0.1 on amd64 without any problems : it needed 3,61 GB disk space for the link stage & most/all of my 2 GB memory. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca