We have been looking at trying to configure libidn to use a prebuild.. We had some issues, but not enough time to figure out what failed yet. I will add that our builds fail on the clone with a -j1 logic or -j 12 ( ie N ) equally. As far as your questions, I am not sure. I am just adding in some Notes of what we are seeing at Yahoo.
Jason On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 3:37 PM Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> wrote: > Hi > > Not really a solution to the savannah malloc failures (I've been seeing > them too when pulling gnulib 10x in parallel from savannah during > continous integration pipeline jobs) but a note that I am (as > libidn/libidn2 maintainer) considering to not use a gnulib submodule but > rather rely on ./bootstrap to pull in gnulib through some other > mechanism, which would allow you to use a gnulib mirror and the > --gnulib-srcdir or --gnulib-refdir options to ./bootstrap, which would > reduce savannah gnulib clone usage. > > Are there any savannah usage graphs per-project? I wonder if gnulib is > a top consumer of resources, or if some other project (guix?) is a large > consumer that needs optimizing. > > /Simon > > "Phong X. Nguyen" via "Discussions among Savannah Hackers, open > subscription" <savannah-hackers-public@gnu.org> writes: > > > Hello, > > > > We pull down libidn and libidn2, both of which rely on gnulib and we have > > with some increasing frequency seen remote out of memory errors. I saw > from > > the prior issues other people have had that we should contact this > mailing > > list if we need some assistance: > > > > remote: fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 49091 > bytes) > > > > remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote > side. > > fatal: protocol error: bad pack header > > Clone of 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gnulib.git' into submodule > path > > 'gnulib' failed > > > > Thanks, > > - Phong X. Nguyen > > >
