Re: [gentoo-user] =dev-lang/spidermonkey-60.5.2_p0-r4 fails @world update

[urpion@gmx.com]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 12:19:55PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> urpion@gmx.com wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 04:52:30PM +0100, Michael wrote:
> >> On Friday, 19 June 2020 16:35:27 BST urpion@gmx.com wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 09:45:59AM -0500, Dale wrote:
> >>>> Jack wrote:
> >>>>> Not far enough back.  You need to show the actual error, not the line
> >>>>> "Error1:" which gets printed after the error.
> >>>> And depending on the number of cores/threads and other emerge settings,
> >>>> it can be a dozen, two dozen lines or sometimes even further back than
> >>>> that.  With CPUs having a dozen or so cores/threads, it's amazing that
> >>>> some stuff compiles at all.  Prime example, recent thread about Pam
> >>>> updates.
> >>>>
> >>>> OP, if needed, tar the whole error log and attach it.  Just don't post
> >>>> it elsewhere and link to it tho.  After a while, it's gone or a person
> >>>> finds the log but not this thread with the solution.
> >>>>
> >>>> Dale
> >>>>
> >>>> :-)  :-)
> >>> Ah ha. Yes Thank you. Sorry, I've never been good with e-mail:-P
> >>
> >> NP, did you get an OOM error in dmesg when this happened by any chance?  You
> >> don't seem to have much RAM, you have no swap and the number of jobs is
> >> relatively high for memory hungry compiles.
> >>
> >> It could be a bug, but unless a report has been filed already in BGO to this
> >> effect, I suggest you add a swapfile, enable it, and try again with
> >> MAKEOPTS="-j1" or "-j2".  Please ask if you need more detail.
> >
> > I was thinking about -j1. I tried -j4. I thought I didn't need swap with >=4GB
> > of RAM, but it makes sense. My machine kinda crawls trying to build that
> > package. Oh man, I'll have to re-partition:-(
> >
> >
>
>
> Create a swap file. I'm not sure about the speed compared to a swap
> partition but if you have room somewhere, no need to repartition.
>
> I might add, 4GBs is not much nowadays.  When I had 16GBs before my
> upgrade to 32GBs, I'd sometimes run out of memory.  Of course, I have
> portage's work directory on tmpfs but the bigger stuff was on hard
> drives still.  Some packages need a lot of memory.  Even with 32GBs, I
> still have some compile on hard drive and it uses a lot of memory just
> for the processes themselves.  The more jobs, the more it uses.  I still
> have a large swap partition even with 32GBs.  If LOo, Firefox and a
> couple others hit at the same time, it uses swap at times. 
>
> Just something to think on.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-) 


Yep. I'm thinkin on that. Thank you