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unable to build firefox 25 on slackware 14.0

I tried to build firefox 25 with a slackbuild that I used successfully in previous versions.
This time it stopped with an error (the link stage) and complaining
about a lack of memory.

I have a lenovo T430s with 4GB RAM.
I ran configure with the following options:

Code:

--enable-official-branding --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib$LIB \

--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \

--infodir=$PREFIX/info --mandir=$PREFIX/man \

--with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib$LIB/firefox-$VERSION \

--with-system-zlib --enable-application=browser \

--enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2 --enable-startup-notification \

--enable-crypto --enable-svg --enable-canvas --enable-logging \

--enable-xft --enable-webm --enable-xinerama --enable-optimize \

--enable-reorder --enable-strip --enable-cpp-rtti \

--enable-single-profile --disable-ldap \

--disable-accessibility --disable-crashreporter \

--disable-debug --disable-tests --disable-pedantic \

--disable-installer --disable-mailnews --disable-composer \

--disable-profilesharing

Has anybody ran into a similar problem?

Quote:

Originally Posted by vonbiber (Post 5058606)

This time it stopped with an error (the link stage) and complaining
about a lack of memory.

It's a well known problem and already hit the windows build years earlier:

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/it...s-1393772.html

Firefox is now to bloated to build on 32 bit systems. That's the definition of bloat per se. ;)

You can try using a 64 bit kernel (not Slackware64, kernel only) to get around it. It gives you one additional GB of virtual address space.

you can create a swapfile ad use it as additional swap memory, like this

Code:

fallocate -l 10G /swapfile

mkswap /swapfile

swapon /swapfile

I ran the Latest Firefox script by Ruari, and that worked as it should.