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From: Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 43610@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43610: IceCat segfault
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:56:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z7uvhe3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blhs8lb7.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sat, 26 Sep 2020 14:05:53 -0400")

On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 14:05:53 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> I'm particularly sensitive to the memory requirements at build time,
> because I choose not to trust the build farm and therefore to build my
> entire Guix system with GNOME from source code on a relatively old
> Thinkpad X200 with only 4 GB of RAM.  I've been doing this for many
> years, and I'd like to enable other Guix users to do so if they wish.

As someone with the same system as you, I have appreciated this for
as long as I've used Guix.  Thank you.

> My impression is that IceCat debug outputs would primarily useful to
> people who are actively developing IceCat, in which case it makes more
> sense to build it manually to allow incremental rebuilds after modifying
> the source code.

I agree---I think it's best not to burden all users (that choose to or
have to build) in this case.

-- 
Mike Gerwitz




  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-01  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-25 13:26 bug#43610: IceCat segfault raingloom
2020-09-25 16:11 ` Mark H Weaver
2020-09-26  2:34   ` raingloom
2020-09-26 18:05     ` Mark H Weaver
2020-09-27  5:49       ` raingloom
2020-09-27 20:36         ` Mark H Weaver
2020-10-01 22:57           ` raingloom
2020-10-01 23:28             ` raingloom
2020-10-09  7:42               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-11-30 20:06                 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-11-30 20:12                   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-12-13 18:19               ` Alex ter Weele
2020-12-15 11:24                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-07-11 18:38                   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-10-01  1:56       ` Mike Gerwitz [this message]
2023-04-07 16:14 ` bug#43610: Segfault still an issue Dominik Delgado via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-04-08  7:55 ` Dominik Delgado via Bug reports for GNU Guix

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