Latest Mozilla?

Norberto Quintanar yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Mar 8 12:30:02 2004


Bill, I wish there was a magic wand to get it to work for you.  I had
all sorts of problems installing Firefox and Galeon.  Not to
discourage you, but once I got them installed they crashed more times
than not and were generally very unstable on my PPC box.  On my x86
redhat and mandrake machines it was a non-eventful install.  

--- "Longman, Bill" <deleted> wrote:
> 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?


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