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commit 6a489839a8852dc3428c53b0d35ead32e06dc1ac
Author: Marius Bakke <[email protected]>
Date: Sun Jul 21 23:32:04 2019 +0200
gnu: ungoogled-chromium: Enable parallel build.
...but limit the memory usage. Tested with --cores=8 on a 16 GiB RAM
machine.
* gnu/packages/chromium.scm (ungoogled-chromium)[arguments]: Remove
<#:parallel-build?>.
Add "jumbo_file_merge_limit=8" in <#:configure-flags>.
---
gnu/packages/chromium.scm | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
index 90ce787..d072fc5 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
@@ -408,9 +408,6 @@ from forcing GEXP-PROMISE."
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(arguments
`(#:tests? #f
- ;; Chromiums build processes may consume up to 8GiB of memory per core.
- ;; Disable parallel builds to avoid thrashing end user systems.
- #:parallel-build? #f
;; FIXME: Chromiums RUNPATH lacks entries for some libraries, so
;; we have to disable validation and add a wrapper below.
#:validate-runpath? #f
@@ -467,6 +464,9 @@ from forcing GEXP-PROMISE."
;; Optimize for building everything at once, as opposed to
;; incrementally for development. See "docs/jumbo.md".
"use_jumbo_build=true"
+ ;; The default file merge limit of 50 requires huge amounts of
RAM.
+ ;; Cap it to make sure the build succeeds on commodity hardware.
+ "jumbo_file_merge_limit=8"
;; Prefer system libraries.
"use_system_freetype=true"
