Firefox build failure, was Re: Silent stoppage building www/chromium

[Jan Beich]

bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 09:40:21PM +0000, Marcel Bischoff wrote:
>
>> Firefox has Rust as a dependency. In the past I have found that the
>> build process for the latter easily overwhelms lean systems with
>> little physical RAM. Regardless of swap space, quite unlike most
>> other ports.
>> 
>
> My error seems to have been using -j2 with make. Re-run using simply
> make -DBATCH MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes 
> compilation kept going until reporting
> gmake[4]: Leaving directory '/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/.build/toolkit/library/rust'
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory '/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/.build'
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/.build'
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/.build'
> *** Error code 1

The actual error appears to have been elided. Paste full output when
restarting build (as text/plain) or upload poudriere log.

www/firefox used to build fine on aarch64, see
http://thunderx1.nyi.freebsd.org/data/latest-per-pkg/firefox/