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120222 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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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? |
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>> The linking phase will need a lot of memory. |
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>> Although I don't understand why ld would terminate with signal 9 then. |
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> When there's not enough memory available, signal 9 is actually |
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> how the 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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I compiled FF 10.0.1 on amd64 without any problems : |
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it needed 3,61 GB disk space for the link stage |
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& most/all of my 2 GB memory. |
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