Re: Preliminary IceCat 68.2 package

[Andy Wingo]

Heya Mark :)

On Wed 23 Oct 2019 12:32, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> I wrote:
>> * Many earlier attempts to build it have failed due to non-deterministic
>>   failures in the build system, possibly due to a bug in the Cargo tool.
>>   I'm not sure how much luck was involved in my successful build.  Your
>>   mileage may vary.
>
> Having now done a few more test builds, I'm sorry to say that the build
> seems to often fail non-deterministically.  Most of my attempts have
> failed so far.
>
> The most common failure mode is described in these bug reports for
> Gentoo and BLFS:
>
>   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680934
>   http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/11975#comment:6
>
> Those errors, where a backtrace is printed by cargo, happen at a
> different place in the build every time.  If you're lucky, you might get
> through the entire build without hitting that bug.
>
> 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.

Cheers,

Andy