Re: [gentoo-user] Avahi Keeps failing on Emerge - Maybe a Python Error?

[Wojtek Dalętka]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 18 January 2009 06:38:15 Richard Watson wrote:
>> I'm sorry about the delay in closing this. I finally figured out if I
>> remove "-pipe" from my /etc/make.conf CFLAGS that all my compile errors go
>> away. Looking at the reference on the subject this option tells GCC not to
>> create temporary files when compiling but to turn this off if low on RAM.
>> Not sure why this happens as I have a 1GB Ram. Maybe this is not enough
>> these days. Anyway problem solved.
>
> That's an interesting result, but I can't help thinking it's the wrong
> solution to the wrong problem. One of my machines has had merely 1G for 2
> years, before that it had 512M for 3 years and it has never shown this
> symptom. I have servers at work with 512M - same thing, even when building
> current packages.
>
> Gut feel is telling me that removing -pipe is simply revealing a deeper
> symptom somewhere - 1G is actually an enormous amount of memory for
> compilation purposes. If you feel like digging deeper, I'd be very interested
> to see where this one leads.
>
>

I would like to write my first post here just to inform you that I also 
had this problem with avahi and pygtk.
Avahi failed to emerge and I had to remove pygtk from my use flags, than 
it compiled OK.

I was just interested if removing "-pipe" from CFLAGS makes any 
difference, and I tried remove it and emerge avahi with pygtk, but it 
does not compile.
For me it compiles only without pygtk and changing -pipe doesn't work at 
all. I checked this because I have 512M.

I don't know why I might need avahi with pygtk...disabling pygtk use 
flag for avahi works fine and other packages compile well.

Wojtek