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Re: Preliminary IceCat 68.2 package
From: |
Mark H Weaver |
Subject: |
Re: Preliminary IceCat 68.2 package |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:06:20 -0400 |
Hi Andy,
Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'd be very grateful for help debugging these failures or finding a
>> workaround.
>
> I don't know what this is, but at work I have to build Firefox a lot,
> and sometimes the rust bits die in the middle of compilation. Is it a
> resource exhaustion issue? I am not sure. In any case, continuing to
> "make" always solves it for me. I know that's not very reassuring, but
> if you're looking for a quick workaround, running your "make -jN" in a
> loop 5 times or something may be good enough.
Thank you, this is a good idea. It's highly unfortunate that we must
resort to such an awful hack, but given the time constraints, we don't
have much of a choice here, and it's clearly what needs to be done.
Thanks for helping me to see that!
Regards,
Mark