Re: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add ledger.

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

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?