On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:16:29PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: > Alex Griffin (2016-05-12 19:31 +0300) wrote: > > Yes, it builds fine for me. It looks like the important line in your > > build log is "c++: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1plus)", > > which could be from running out of memory. Does it still happen if you > > add `#:parallel-build? #f` to the build system arguments? > > Oh indeed, if parallel-build is disabled, it is built successfully. > Thank you (and Leo)! > > So I don't know, should ‘#:parallel-build? #f’ be used in the final > package recipe? I guess not, as it looks like a problem on my side (not > enough memory for parallel-build).
My opinion is that 3 or 4 GB is not a very small amount of RAM for a personal computer. I think that allowing users with "only" 4 GB RAM to build our ledger package is worth it taking twice as long for the rest of us. Or, users with ≤ 4 GB RAM could make a private variant of ledger that disables parallel building. We sometimes suggest that users with esoteric requirements or restrictions do something like this, but I don't think this is one of those cases. Thoughts?
