GPT vs MBR for swap devices

[Trev]

Mark Millard via freebsd-arm wrote on 19/06/2018 11:31:
> Going in a different direction, I believe that you have
> reported needing more than 1 GiByte of swap space so the
> 1048576 "1K-blocks" would not be expected to be sufficient.
> So the specific failing point may well be odd but the build
> would not be expected to finish without an OOM for this
> context if I understand right.

Just for reference, with the 32 bit Rpi2, my peak swap usage (with 
nothing much other than make -j4 buildworld running) is 1.424GB.