On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 12:57:27PM -0400, Jack wrote: > On 2020.06.19 12:10, urp...@gmx.com wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 04:52:30PM +0100, Michael wrote: > > > On Friday, 19 June 2020 16:35:27 BST urp...@gmx.com wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 09:45:59AM -0500, Dale wrote: > > > > > Jack wrote: > > > > > > Not far enough back. You need to show the actual error, not > > the line > > > > > > "Error1:" which gets printed after the error. > > > > > > > > > > And depending on the number of cores/threads and other emerge > > settings, > > > > > it can be a dozen, two dozen lines or sometimes even further > > back than > > > > > that. With CPUs having a dozen or so cores/threads, it's > > amazing that > > > > > some stuff compiles at all. Prime example, recent thread about > > Pam > > > > > updates. > > > > > > > > > > OP, if needed, tar the whole error log and attach it. Just > > don't post > > > > > it elsewhere and link to it tho. After a while, it's gone or a > > person > > > > > finds the log but not this thread with the solution. > > > > > > > > > > Dale > > > > > > > > > > :-) :-) > > > > > > > > Ah ha. Yes Thank you. Sorry, I've never been good with e-mail:-P > > > > > > > > > NP, did you get an OOM error in dmesg when this happened by any > > chance? You > > > don't seem to have much RAM, you have no swap and the number of > > jobs is > > > relatively high for memory hungry compiles. > > > > > > It could be a bug, but unless a report has been filed already in > > BGO to this > > > effect, I suggest you add a swapfile, enable it, and try again with > > > MAKEOPTS="-j1" or "-j2". Please ask if you need more detail. > > > > > > I was thinking about -j1. I tried -j4. I thought I didn't need swap > > with >=4GB > > of RAM, but it makes sense. My machine kinda crawls trying to build > > that > > package. Oh man, I'll have to re-partition:-( > Although it borders on a religious argument, many/most agree you always > need at least a small amount of swap. > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_Base:Is_swap_space_really_necessary > > You can also set up a swap file instead of a swap partition. You'll > have to search for instructions, I didn't find it quick enough to > include a link. >
I haven't thought about these things in a long time. I've never had more than 4GB of RAM.
