Latest Mozilla?

Longman, Bill yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Mar 8 12:20:01 2004


More of the same, but now it's segfaulting. Here's the final message:

collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault], core dumped
gmake[3]: *** [libgklayout.so] Error 1
gmake[3]: Target `libs' not remade because of errors.
gmake[2]: *** [libs] Error 2
gmake[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
make: *** [default] Error 2

Fomenting for FireFox failures,

Bill

> 
> Guys, I've been trying to compile FireFox since mid last week. I keep
> running out of memory through the compile stage. I've added 
> an extra 128MB
> of swap and ld keeps getting SIGKILLed on the compile of 
> chrome. How much
> room is needed? Is the compile using /dev/shm for its temp 
> files? I am even
> to the point of running only about ten processes on the whole 
> system and
> exec'ing my make. Any thoughts on what else I can do?
> 
> Machine: PB 3400c, 48MB RAM, 64MB swap
> Make environment: source code on NFS drive, two 64MB 
> swapfiles (128MB total)
> added.
> 
> A second, ancillary question:
> 
> I tried making swap files on an NFS mount (and on my HFS 
> filesystem). I kept
> getting holes in the swapfiles once I made them. Is there something
> inherently "holey" about swapfiles on other filesystems I'm 
> unaware of? I
> have used NFS swap space for years on my diskless 
> workstations. Is this a
> Linux phenomenon?