Re: Guile fails to build

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Tobias!

Tobias Platen <address@hidden> skribis:

> When using the wip-gcc7 branch building guile fails with an out of
> memory error.

[...]

> GC Warning: Out of memory - trying to allocate requested amount (336 bytes)...
> GC Warning: Out of memory - trying to allocate requested amount (336 bytes)...
> GC Warning: Header allocation failed: dropping block
> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 6864896 bytes
> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 65536 bytes
> GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 21 MiB. Returning NULL!
> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 65536 bytes
> GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 21 MiB. Returning NULL!
> Warning: Unwind-only `out-of-memory' exception; skipping pre-unwind handler.
> FAIL: test-out-of-memory
> ==================================
> 1 of 39 tests failed

I suspect this test fails non-deterministically.

At any rate, ‘wip-gcc7’ has been merged in ‘core-updates’ now so I’d
suggest using that branch instead.  Note that ‘core-updates’ is pretty
much work-in-progress until it’s frozen, though.

Thanks,
Ludo’.