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 1RzyaD-0006Id-BU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:53:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EEFC0E1AE2; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:53:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9570E1AD0 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:51:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F3591B404A for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:51:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.875 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.875 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.035, BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FSL_RCVD_USER=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sdqyTwv2Sa3r for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EB90F1B403D for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:51:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RzyYS-00039D-56 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:51:28 +0100 Received: from athedsl-344211.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.200.49]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:51:28 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-344211.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:51:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:51:17 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-344211.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120213 Thunderbird/10.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20120221233428.597b3e2c@weird.wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 2bd2ed28-5f8b-4282-bda8-58bc0611c829 X-Archives-Hash: 5dc2e12875700b6059bb409e5f0da1d2 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.