[Solved] www-client/firefox-128.4.0 fail to merge

[Fitap]

Hi there,
Here you are the log www-client/firefox-128.4.0

[logrusx]

[Frautoincnam]

[flysideways]

I just finished an update on an 8GB Pi 5 with -j4 set, it did go to swap during the firefox emerge and it took 50% longer than the prior firefox emerges. It showed 1.6GB in swap.

[Fitap]

[Hu]

As logrusx suspected, dmesg shows that various processes, including compiler processes, were killed due to out-of-memory. You do not have sufficient virtual memory to run this build with these settings. Add more virtual memory, or run fewer programs at once. The latter is likely easier.

[Fitap]

[Fitap]

[Juippisi]

Note that we flipped the default use flag +clang off for these releases and it now uses GCC by default to build. GCC does take more memory than clang, although the real difference should come when +lto is enabled (and in your case it's not). However you can most likely get away using less memory if you enable +clang on firefox on your own. There's also the jumbo-build use flag which will help reducing memory usage if you turn it off, but it'll drastically increase the compilation time of firefox too.

[logrusx]

There is a file merge limit, for jumbo-build. Even values like 10 or 15 give huge difference. You should be able to dig it in the forums.

Best Regards,
Georgi

[Juippisi]