On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 08:12:22AM -0500, Kenneth R Westerback wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 07:46:52PM +0100, Martin Pieuchot wrote:
> > On 16/11/11(Wed) 13:40, Kenneth R Westerback wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 06:41:43PM +0100, Martin Pieuchot wrote:
> > > > On 16/11/11(Wed) 12:21, Kenneth R Westerback wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 04:44:33PM +0100, Martin Pieuchot wrote:
> > > > > > On 16/11/11(Wed) 10:21, Kenneth R Westerback wrote:
> > > > > > > Still not happy.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > .... Ken
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Certainly an other diff missing... Can you try firefox 8?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I built it with the diff I sent you yesterday.
> > > > > 
> > > > > No joy.
> > > > 
> > > > You still need to add the patch I sent you, that should fix this build
> > > > error.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I think it has got past the error this time and is building. Will let you
> > > know how it comes out in a couple hours. :-)
> > 
> > hours^W days!
> 
> Don't know how long machine will stay up ...
> 
> Building FF8 seems to suck up memory and hang my machine real good
> when it finally exhuasts swap space, now that mpi@'s diff got me
> past the initial js part.
> 
> I added 2G of swap this morning and started again. It gets to
> 
> ...
> gmake[3]: Entering directory '[snip]/mozilla-release/toolkit/library'
> rm -f libxul.so.27.0
> /usr/local/bin/python2.7 [gigantic list of includes and libraries]
> ...
> 
> At which point swap goes shooting past my previous 1G, and pauses at
> 1.2G when the next message is printed:
> 
> ld: Warning: gc-sections ignored
> 
> by which time ld is taking 60% of the processor! After this ld processor
> use goes down and swap starts creeping up again.
> 
> ld is still spiking to >30% of processor, no new messages have
> appeared and machine (which I am typing this on) appears responsive.
> Swap is up to 1453M, and my extra swap light (i.e. the usb stick's
> light) is blinking.
> 
> This machine is a macppc macmini with 512MB of real memory.
> 
> .... Ken
> 

And after a few more minutes the build completed successfully and
ff8 runs (i.e. can get to slashdot) on the macmini.

.... Ken

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