120222 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 22/02/12 00:34, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Mick writes: >>> The latest stable x86 firefox fails to compile: >> [... big linking being done ...] >>> collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] >>> make[5]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1 >> [...] >> Do you have enough memory on that machine, is swap space activated? >> The linking phase will need a lot of memory. >> Although I don't understand why ld would terminate with signal 9 then. > When there's not enough memory available, signal 9 is actually > how the system recovers from that, by killing the offending process. > dmesg should have given a clue about what happened in that case.
I compiled FF 10.0.1 on amd64 without any problems : it needed 3,61 GB disk space for the link stage & most/all of my 2 GB memory. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
