Leo Famulari writes: > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:16:29PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: >> Alex Griffin (2016-05-12 19:31 +0300) wrote: >> > Yes, it builds fine for me. It looks like the important line in your >> > build log is "c++: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1plus)", >> > which could be from running out of memory. Does it still happen if you >> > add `#:parallel-build? #f` to the build system arguments? >> >> Oh indeed, if parallel-build is disabled, it is built successfully. >> Thank you (and Leo)! >> >> So I don't know, should ‘#:parallel-build? #f’ be used in the final >> package recipe? I guess not, as it looks like a problem on my side (not >> enough memory for parallel-build). > > My opinion is that 3 or 4 GB is not a very small amount of RAM for a > personal computer. > > I think that allowing users with "only" 4 GB RAM to build our ledger > package is worth it taking twice as long for the rest of us. > > Or, users with ≤ 4 GB RAM could make a private variant of ledger that > disables parallel building. We sometimes suggest that users with > esoteric requirements or restrictions do something like this, but I > don't think this is one of those cases. > > Thoughts?
I guess I'm of a different view... it was only very recently that I upgraded to a machine that had > 4GB ram. And not too long ago I had a machine with 2GB of ram for a long time. Which, yes maybe that's living in the past... I dunno :)
