www/firefox & mail/thunderbird fail to build

[dan]

On 12/02/2010 00:54, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> Installed my FreeBSD 8.1 system last night. Trying to build firefox and thunderbird and both fail when compiling the same component. I've put a screenshot on the net: http://gnix.co.uk/code.html
>
> I was wondering if anyone else had experienced this and if so if and how they fixed it.
>
> Cheers, Jamie.
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Hello,

I suppose the system on which the port is being compiled on is low in 
swap space.

Try to disable compiler optimizations  (make config).

Here's a similar (same ?) problem

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gecko/2010-February/000682.html

With a workaround, probably no longer valid/adequate

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gecko/2010-February/000692.html

d