Message: 1 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 11:18:59 -0500 From: Jared Hamilton <jared@fastmail.com> Subject: Re: Problem building Firefox 35.0: build freezes To: crux@lists.crux.nu Message-ID: Did you find out what caused the issue? I'm building it at the moment, froze for around fifteen minutes, just started going again.

-- Jared Hamilton "In Unix country, on a quiet night, you can hear Windows rebooting."

Yesterday, I ran it again. During the freeze, I ran top and found that ld was working overtime. Free showed that there was very little available memory (I have 2GB of core). All this is compatible with xulrunner being linked. The build eventually finished successfully, but I wasn't actually there when it ended. Today I ran pkgmk -f and logged the result. As I suspected, the build is much less verbose than it used to be and you can no longer see the linking of xulrunner to its various dependencies. It used to pause on that, so you could at least see *why* it had stopped. Now it just stops and you can't see why. Not an improvement in my opinion! H Russman