As of 1bc9d5222f9053fd0ace7b92df0ef9548707cf41 (version-1.4.0), the ‘guix’ package fails to build on armhf-linux, running out of memory:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [ 75%] GUILEC gnu/packages/toolkits.go [ 76%] GUILEC gnu/packages/tor.go [ 76%] GUILEC gnu/packages/tv.go [ 76%] GUILEC gnu/packages/uglifyjs.go [ 76%] GUILEC gnu/packages/uml.go [ 76%] GUILEC gnu/packages/unicode.go [ 76%] GUILEC gnu/packages/unrtf.go [ 76%] GUILEC gnu/packages/upnp.go [ 76%] GUILEC gnu/packages/usb-modeswitch.go [ 76%] GUILEC gnu/packages/uucp.go [ 76%] GUILEC gnu/packages/valgrind.go [ 76%] GUILEC gnu/packages/version-control.go [ 76%] GUILEC gnu/packages/video.go GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL! GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL! GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL! GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL! GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL! […] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The build process goes on; it never stops but doesn’t make any progress. I don’t know if it’s deterministic. It builds fine on i686-linux. Ludo’.