On 2017-11-16, Jeremi Piotrowski <jeremi.piotrow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 4:05 AM, <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> building firefox 57.0 failed on my system - it looks like >> the last stage (linking) fails. >> > > It doesn't fail at the last stage - that's just when the error is > repeated after other parallel tasks in the pipeline are completed. The > actual error you got starts around line 5520 and is:
Even it it doesn't solve the problem, using -j1 will eliminates this sort of confusion and make it much easier to spot the source of the problem. Of course the build takes longer. [And if you're building on a laptop where you've unwittingly broken the CPU clock throttling stuff, and it's running at 1/4 speed, it _really_ takes a long time.] -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Sometime in 1993 at NANCY SINATRA will lead a gmail.com BLOODLESS COUP on GUAM!!