On Monday, December 5, 2016 11:05 CET, Stuart Longland
<stua...@longlandclan.id.au> wrote:

> On 28/11/16 21:10, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > You are right, gcc 4.9 generates some code using opcodes that need newer
gas.
> > Try building the port with clang (it would also help the case where the
port
> > itself has asm needing a newer assembler; clang has an integrated
assembler
> > which generally has better opcode support, it's needed e.g. for some
video
> > codecs in x86-land for this reason too).
> >
> > MODULES += lang/clang
> > MODCLANG_ARCHS = *
> >
> > gstreamer1 in -current already uses this but the currently available
mips64el
> > package snapshot pre-dates this change.
>
> A heads up, I'm in the process of giving this a try.
>
> I started it off yesterday afternoon and this evening I note that the
> llvm/clang build failed with an "out of memory" error.  I've re-started
> on the off-chance it was a temporary issue, but I doubt it.

The OOM can also be a limit in /etc/login.conf, maybe you have to bump
datasize there, and try again.

Sebastian

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