On Wednesday 22 Feb 2012 00:22:27 Philip Webb wrote: > 120222 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 22/02/12 00:34, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> Mick writes: > >>> The latest stable x86 firefox fails to compile: > >> [... big linking being done ...] > >> > >>> collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] > >>> make[5]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1 > >> > >> [...] > >> Do you have enough memory on that machine, is swap space activated? > >> The linking phase will need a lot of memory. > >> Although I don't understand why ld would terminate with signal 9 then. > > > > When there's not enough memory available, signal 9 is actually > > how the system recovers from that, by killing the offending process. > > dmesg should have given a clue about what happened in that case. > > I compiled FF 10.0.1 on amd64 without any problems : > it needed 3,61 GB disk space for the link stage > & most/all of my 2 GB memory.
Thanks guys, I did add half a gig of swap just in case to the 250M already available. It may be that this old box is now soooo old that I can no longer emerge FF on it. I will try adding some more swap (which of course will take away available disk space for /var/portage) and see what I run out of. PS. I was expecting some message on screen saying "no space left on device", but have not checked dmesg for running out memory errors. -- Regards, Mick
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