Hey, > Hi, > > firefox is missing on i386 due to BROKEN dependency (lang/rust). > > And rustc is marked BROKEN because it requires too much memory and > fail randomly during the build (and it fails more often than it > success). So firefox couldn't be build. > > But any help on lang/rust on i386 would be appreciate... the game is > "found the way to build it reliably". > > Some ways could be: > - good options on LLVM backend to reduce the memory requirement > - good options on rustc to reduce the memory requirement > - found why the build doesn't use swap at all (some kernel hacking in > vm ?) > > The sensitive part of the build is the build of "librustc" crate. > Currently the build is already tricked (for this crate) with rustc > options: "-C codegen-units=16 -C opt-level=1 -Z fewer-names" (but it > isn't enough). See patches/patch-src_bootstrap_bin_rustc_rs. > > Note, that currently I am able to build it (after some hours) with > command line like: > > $ cd /usr/ports/lang/rust && while ! make ; do echo try again ; done > > Any players ? > > Thanks.
thank you for clarification. Unfortunately 2 days ago my last suitable i386 machine broke down and at this point I have absolutely no experience with rust itself. However I can try to help building firefox reliably using a virtual environment, if that's a practical approach. -- greetings, Florian Viehweger
