bug#37482: Guix fails to build libreoffice

2019-09-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Jan skribis: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 22:04:50 +0200 > Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> There’s no way to skip it. However, there are a couple of tricks: > What about adding an option to only download substitutes for older > devices? That’s not possible in the general case. Also, it would be

bug#37482: Guix fails to build libreoffice

2019-09-27 Thread Jan
On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 22:04:50 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > There’s no way to skip it. However, there are a couple of tricks: What about adding an option to only download substitutes for older devices? I saw someone talking about such feature on the mailing list, don't know where exactly though.

bug#37482: Guix fails to build libreoffice

2019-09-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Jan skribis: > Is there a way to skip building libreoffice, if the substitute isn't > available? There’s no way to skip it. However, there are a couple of tricks: • The ‘--dry-run’ option always shows what would be built or downloaded, so you can run, say, ‘guix upgrade --dry-run

bug#37482: Guix fails to build libreoffice

2019-09-22 Thread Jan
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 19:45:52 +0200 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > 2 GiB of RAM is simply not enough to build many packages these > days. That's the world we live in. There's nothing Guix can do > to change that. Sad, guess I have to buy more RAM. > You can restrict the number of parallel bu

bug#37482: Guix fails to build libreoffice

2019-09-22 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice 写道: People tend to underestimate just how slow swap is by several orders of magnitude, though. Or just how quickly it can destroy an SSD. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

bug#37482: Guix fails to build libreoffice

2019-09-22 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Jesse Gibbons 写道: Even then, some complex executables will simply fail to link with so little RAM. You can get around too little RAM by using swap, correct? Partition ~8GB as swap and add (swap-devices) in the configuration. Sure, I think I suggested that (I was serious about Gnome, too!).

bug#37482: Guix fails to build libreoffice

2019-09-22 Thread Jesse Gibbons
On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 19:45 +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote: > Jan, > > Thanks for the report, and sorry you had to learn this the hard > way. > > Jan Wielkiewicz 写道: > > I've recently tried to reconfigure my system, but after about 3 > > hours > > of building li

bug#37482: Guix fails to build libreoffice

2019-09-22 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Jan, Thanks for the report, and sorry you had to learn this the hard way. Jan Wielkiewicz 写道: I've recently tried to reconfigure my system, but after about 3 hours of building libreoffice, the system froze for 2 hours and then guix threw: […] g++: internal compiler error: Killed (progra

bug#37482: Guix fails to build libreoffice

2019-09-22 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
Hi everyone! I've recently tried to reconfigure my system, but after about 3 hours of building libreoffice, the system froze for 2 hours and then guix threw: - 'build' phasebuilder for `/gnu/store/ndibmh084iqmhv1ldv3fr3380mfk6qzg-libreoffice-6.1.5.2.drv' failed with exit code 1 build of /gn