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Old 11-05-2013, 04:15 AM   #1
vonbiber
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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?
 
Old 11-05-2013, 04:29 AM   #2
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vonbiber View Post
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.

Last edited by jtsn; 11-05-2013 at 04:32 AM.
 
Old 11-05-2013, 05:03 AM   #3
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you can create a swapfile ad use it as additional swap memory, like this
Code:
fallocate -l 10G /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
 
Old 11-05-2013, 08:12 AM   #4
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I ran the Latest Firefox script by Ruari, and that worked as it should.
 
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