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bug#40522: ‘guile3.0-guix’ sometimes fails to build on i686 (“Too many h


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: bug#40522: ‘guile3.0-guix’ sometimes fails to build on i686 (“Too many heap sections”)
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:33:02 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux)

Hi,

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

> https://github.com/Macaulay2/M2/issues/500 says there it's the Boehm GC being
> configured for small memory by default.

Hmm, weird.  ‘core-updates’ is on libgc 8.x (instead of 7.x), so we’ll
have to check if the same happens.

> They say setting the environment variable GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE (to
> like "50G") helps.  Not sure why.
>
> Also, there's an environment variable GC_MAXIMUM_HEAP_SIZE.

Looks like an ugly workaround, at best.  :-)

Thanks for checking!

Ludo’.





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