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On 22/02/12 00:34, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Mick writes: |
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>> The latest stable x86 firefox fails to compile: |
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> [... big linking being done ...] |
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>> collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] |
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>> make[5]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1 |
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> [...] |
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> Do you have enough memory on that machine, is swap space activated? The |
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> linking phase will need a lot of memory. Although I don't understand why |
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> ld would terminate with signal 9 then. |
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When there's not enough memory available, signal 9 is actually how the |
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system recovers from that, by killing the offending process. |
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dmesg should have given a clue about what happened in that case. |
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