Warren Block wrote on 2010-08-01:
xz(1) has a built-in protective notion about limiting memory usage that
prevents port building on relatively low-memory computers. Users have
experienced this in the wild[1].
Matthias Andree pointed out[2] that there are existing ways to limit
memory usage: "They can use ulimit(1) -- or whatever their favourite
login shell offers -- to set soft memory limits."
I submitted ports/148250[3] to add the "-Mmax" option to port xz
extractions. There haven't been any squawks of outrage, peeps of
agreement, or even acks of, uh, acknowledgement. Hence this message, to
bring it up again for a status check.
I'm in favour of adding such a command line option to extraction, because
it appears that upstream solutions are stalled or progressing slowly (I
haven't checked the xz git repo though), and it's critical to the build
process that we can actually extract.
--
Matthias Andree
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