From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add ledger.
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 12:45:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lh39yjze.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160514024937.GA15206@jasmine>
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 :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-16 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-07 18:38 [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add ledger Alex Griffin
2016-05-07 19:20 ` Alex Griffin
2016-05-07 22:23 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-08 2:10 ` Alex Griffin
2016-05-09 3:39 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-09 20:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-09 21:01 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-12 3:28 ` Alex Griffin
2016-05-12 9:12 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-12 16:31 ` Alex Griffin
2016-05-12 19:03 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-13 19:16 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-13 21:05 ` Alex Griffin
2016-05-14 2:49 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-16 15:03 ` Alex Kost
2016-05-16 17:45 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2016-05-16 18:05 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-05-16 18:06 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-16 18:45 ` Leo Famulari
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