On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:45:57PM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Leo Famulari writes: > > > 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? > > I guess I'm of a different view... it was only very recently that I > upgraded to a machine that had > 4GB ram. And not too long ago I had a > machine with 2GB of ram for a long time. > > Which, yes maybe that's living in the past... I dunno :) >
I wish I could remember, but we do have another build that has a test disabled because it uses ~4GB of memory. -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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