Re: Preliminary IceCat 68.2 package

2019-10-23 Thread Mark H Weaver
nd for that I'm very grateful. I've pushed a new 'wip-icecat-68' branch with a preliminary IceCat 68.2 package that should now build *far* more reliably. Mark

Re: Preliminary IceCat 68.2 package

2019-10-23 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Andy, Andy Wingo wrote: >> I'd be very grateful for help debugging these failures or finding a >> workaround. > > I don't know what this is, but at work I have to build Firefox a lot, > and sometimes the rust bits die in the middle of compilation. Is it a > resource exhaustion issue? I am no

Re: Preliminary IceCat 68.2 package

2019-10-23 Thread Andy Wingo
Heya Mark :) On Wed 23 Oct 2019 12:32, Mark H Weaver writes: > I wrote: >> * Many earlier attempts to build it have failed due to non-deterministic >> failures in the build system, possibly due to a bug in the Cargo tool. >> I'm not sure how much luck was involved in my successful build. Yo

Re: Preliminary IceCat 68.2 package

2019-10-23 Thread Mark H Weaver
I wrote: > * Many earlier attempts to build it have failed due to non-deterministic > failures in the build system, possibly due to a bug in the Cargo tool. > I'm not sure how much luck was involved in my successful build. Your > mileage may vary. Having now done a few more test builds, I'm

Preliminary IceCat 68.2 package

2019-10-23 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hello fellow Guix, I was finally able to successfully build a working IceCat-68.2 package. The 'wip-icecat-68' branch on Savannah contains this preliminary work. A few caveats: * IceCat 68 has not yet been released upstream. This is very much a work-in-progress, and does not currently meet th