On Jun 8, 2012 1:16 PM, "Raffaele BELARDI" <raffaele.bela...@st.com> wrote: > > I'm on an old 512Mb RAM / 1Gb swap system. > > Up to seamonkey-2.9.1 I was able to build from sources. > > emerging 2.9.1-r2 dies with "collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 > [Killed]" and I see swap space being eaten up quickly towards the end of > the build. > > gcc is 4.6.3, I also tried 4.5.3 with same result. Building from a > console without X and all the servers down hits the same problem. > > CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" > > I browsed through gcc options and did not find anything to minimize > memory requirements other than reducing optimization level, but I > suppose that impacts on compilation and the problem occurs during linking. > > Do I have any option other than increasing the swap space or going with > the -bin package? > > thanks, > > raffaele
What's wrong with temporarily increasing swap space using swap files? Rgds,
