From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 13:37:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD09106564A for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:37:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jpg@griffin.gnix.co.uk) Received: from griffin.gnix.co.uk (griffin.gnix.co.uk [80.229.5.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C468FC08 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:37:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from snow.gnix.co.uk (unknown [80.229.5.32]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by griffin.gnix.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DA37C391C7 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:37:15 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:37:43 +0000 From: Jamie Paul Griffin To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101202133742.GA1825@snow.gnix.co.uk> References: <20101201235410.GA1466@snow.gnix.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://gnix.co.uk/jpg-pubkey.asc X-URL: http://gnix.co.uk/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: www/firefox & mail/thunderbird fail to build X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:37:46 -0000 > Hello, > > I suppose the system on which the port is being compiled on is low > in swap space. > > Try to disable compiler optimizations (make config). > > Here's a similar (same ?) problem > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gecko/2010-February/000682.html > > With a workaround, probably no longer valid/adequate > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gecko/2010-February/000692.html > > d Hi Dan thanks for the link and your suggestion. `make config` and de-selecting the Additional Optimizations flag has enabled me to build Firefox; just done the same for Thunderbird so I think that will be alright too although it is still building now. Best wishes, Jamie for the archives: www/firefox == firefox-3.6.12 FreeBSD 8.1 i386