Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > >>> I've attached a workaround that I've been using for the last 6 weeks on >>> my MIPS-based Yeeloong running GuixSD, since it only has 1 GB of RAM and >>> otherwise it would not be able to successfully build the 'guix' package. >>> >>> Note that I never use 'guix pull', so I'm not sure off-hand whether this >>> solves the problem there, but it certainly greatly reduces the memory >>> needed to run 'make' and thus to build the 'guix' package. >> >> thank you for this patch. I’m trying it on my i686 with 1GB of RAM now. >> My own attempt to revert the commit to build all files in one process >> resulted in a guix pull that would only go to 20.4% and then sit there >> doing nothing. >> >> I’ll report back once I manage to run “guix pull --url=/path/to/guix” >> with this patch.
Well… I just noticed that guix pull doesn’t even use compile-all.scm; it uses build-self.scm, so this patch has no effect on “guix pull”. I’ll try to come up with another fix for guix pull. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
