libxul compilation problem

[Fernando Apesteguía]

2010/10/17 Rob Farmer <rfarmer at predatorlabs.net>:
> 2010/10/17 Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com>:
>> The machine has one single core cpu. Finally I was able to compile the
>> thing, compiling
>> the offending file by hand (nsHtml5ElementName.cpp) without the -O2
>> optimization flag.
>> With this flag, cc1plus eats up all the memory of my system in a few
>> seconds. Without
>> the flag, the file is compiled without any problems and quite fast.
>>
>> Should this issue be a candidate for filing a PR?
>
> It's hard to say whether this is really a bug or not - I still think
> your overall memory is low - 1 GB of RAM should be a supported
> configuration, but that assumes a decent amount of swap - I'll bet
> sysinstall's recommended partitioning would give you 2 GB.

I still refuse to think 1GB is low ;) though I could be wrong.

>
> Try mailing the maintainers (gecko at freebsd.org) and see what they say.

I'll do it.

Thanks for your advices.

Cheers.

>
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> Rob Farmer
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