From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Preliminary IceCat 68.2 package
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:06:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tv7zxzzs.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9sfk3br.fsf@igalia.com>
Hi Andy,
Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> 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 not sure. In any case, continuing to
> "make" always solves it for me. I know that's not very reassuring, but
> if you're looking for a quick workaround, running your "make -jN" in a
> loop 5 times or something may be good enough.
Thank you, this is a good idea. It's highly unfortunate that we must
resort to such an awful hack, but given the time constraints, we don't
have much of a choice here, and it's clearly what needs to be done.
Thanks for helping me to see that!
Regards,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-23 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-23 8:37 Preliminary IceCat 68.2 package Mark H Weaver
2019-10-23 10:32 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-10-23 13:18 ` Andy Wingo
2019-10-23 15:06 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2019-10-23 19:50 ` Mark H Weaver
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