On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 11:30 PM Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote:
> > it would be extremely useful to confirm that 32-bit builds can in fact > > be completed, simply by adding "-Wl no-keep-memory" to any 32-bit > > builds that are failing at the linker phase due to lack of memory. > > Note that Firefox is built with --no-keep-memory > --reduce-memory-overheads, and that was still not enough for 32-bts > builds. GNU gold instead of BFD ld was also given a shot. That didn't > work either. Presently, to make things link at all on 32-bits platforms, > debug info is entirely disabled. I still need to figure out what minimal > debug info can be enabled without incurring too much memory usage > during linking. hi mike, hi steve, i did not receive a response on the queries about the additional recommended options [1], so rather than lose track i raised a bugreport and cross-referenced this discussion: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919882 personally, after using the ld-evil-linker.py tool i do not expect the recommended options to work on 32-bit, as i suspect that, despite the options saying that they do not use mmap, the investigation that i did provides some empirical evidence to the contrary, whereas ld-bfd does *not*. so, ironically, on ld-bfd you run into one bug, and on ld-gold you run into another :) l. [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22831#c25
