From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Preliminary IceCat 68.2 package Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:06:20 -0400 Message-ID: <87tv7zxzzs.fsf@netris.org> References: <87k18vzwl2.fsf@netris.org> <87blu7zr8f.fsf@netris.org> <87v9sfk3br.fsf@igalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iNIER-0004PJ-Ve for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:07:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iNIEQ-0004wv-Sx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:07:27 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:54698) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iNIEQ-0004va-P1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:07:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87v9sfk3br.fsf@igalia.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Andy Wingo Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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 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