Re: [gentoo-user] net-libs/nodejs

[tastytea]

On 2022-07-07 00:19+0200 karl@××××××××.se wrote:

> Unfortunately it seems I cannon emerge nodejs due
> to this error:
>
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
>  failed to set dynamic section sizes: memory exhausted
>
> I tried to stop every process except gettys and the login,
> still the same, no MAKEOPTS (i.e. no paralell builds) and
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs 1 ...
>
> The emerge line is:
>
> [ebuild     U ] net-libs/nodejs-18.3.0 [14.19.0]
>  USE="debug icu npm snapshot ssl system-icu system-ssl
>  -doc* -inspector -lto -pax-kernel -systemtap -test"
>  CPU_FLAGS_X86="sse2"
>
> Would dropping some use flags help ?
> I'm generally not interested in nodejs as such,
> it's just that firefox depends on it.

I'm not familiar with nodejs in particular, but dropping the debug
USE-flag will probably reduce the amount of memory it needs somewhat.
You could also add more swap, or look into zswap¹ or zram².

> When emergings with --skipfirst (i.e. skip nodejs),
> I get:
> emerge: It seems we have nothing to resume...
>
> Checking dependancies:
> # emerge -vc net-libs/nodejs
>
> Calculating dependencies  .... done!
>   net-libs/nodejs-14.19.0 pulled in by:
>     www-client/firefox-91.9.0 requires >=net-libs/nodejs-10.23.1
>
> So, why don't emerge build the other 100'ish packages ?
> Last time I did emerge nodejs, must I run emerge @world
> and let that fail first ?

Yes, --resume will always try to resume the last command that failed,
as far as i know.

> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar

Regards, tastytea

¹ <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Zswap>
² <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Zram>