Re: [gentoo-user] Not enough RAM for dev-qt/qtwebengine build

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:48:04 +0300, Alexey Eschenko wrote:

> That was my first move. Unfortunately it didn't help.
> But in the first answer in this thread I saw a good idea about
> decreasing number of parallel build threads. I have MAKEOPTS="-j32" and
> it's probably the cause of my problem with this package. Right now I'm
> trying separate build environment with decreased job count value and it
> looks promissing. I'll leave the message with results in the reply to
> that message. 13.06.2019, 14:13, "Neil Bothwick" <neil@××××××××××.uk>:

You can set that in package.env too, I do this for Chromium:

% cat /etc/portage/package.env/chromium
www-client/chromium alert-done.conf disk-tmpdir.conf j2.conf

% cat /etc/portage/env/j2.conf
MAKEOPTS="-j2"

> > On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 13:19:24 +0300, Alexey Eschenko wrote:
> >   For some time I have problems with dev-qt/qtwebengine (at least
> > 5.12.3)
> >>  build. As far as I can see it fails to build due to memory
> >> exhaustion. Although I have 32 GB of RAM (at least 20 of them is
> >> almost always free) looks like it's not enough. It's strange because
> >> I have no problems with Firefox/Chromium/Libreoffice builds.
> >
> >
> > Do you have $PORTAGE_TMPDIR on a tmpfs filesystem? I had a similar
> > problem, on a slightly less well-endowed system, and had to use
> > portage.env to instruct that ebuild, as well as chromium and
> > libreoffice, to use a directory on my SSD for PORTAGE_TMPDIR.
> >
> > % cat /etc/portage/package.env/qt
> > dev-qt/qtwebengine disk-tmpdir.conf
> >
> > % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf
> > PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch"
> >
> >  --
> > Neil Bothwick
> >
> >
> > Assassins do it from behind.



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