311421 - Make of Firefox + Sunbird build fails

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Brett]

I was following the directions at http://gemal.dk/mozilla/build.html because 
Mozilla's did not work for me. I had gotten very far and had begun the build 
using "make -f client.mk build_all". After a few hours, it stopped. I checked 
the error log and this is the last 10 lines or so:

../../dist/lib/libgkxultree_s.a ../../dist/lib/libgkxulgrid_s.a 
../../dist/lib/libgkconxultmpl_s.a  ../../dist/lib/libgkcontentxtf_s.a 
../../dist/lib/libgkxtfbase_s.a  -Wl,--no-whole-archive -L../../dist/bin 
-L../../dist/lib -lgkgfx ../../dist/lib/libunicharutil_s.a -L../../dist/lib 
-lxpcom -lxpcom_core -L../../dist/bin -L../../dist/lib -lnspr4 -lplc4 -lplds4 
-L../../dist/lib -ljs3250   -lm    
collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault], core dumped
make[4]: *** [gklayout.dll] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/mozilla/mozilla/layout/build'
make[3]: *** [libs] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/mozilla/mozilla/layout'
make[2]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/mozilla/mozilla'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/mozilla/mozilla'
make: *** [build] Error 2

I have not attempted to reproduce it yet, for it will most likely take many 
hours, but I will start that now. I'm not sure what other information is 
needed, but I will be glad to produce anything needed.

Comment 1

[Brett]

I reproduced it. Keeps happening.

Comment 2

[Brett]

Having reproduced the problem a few times, it occurs at the same time of the 
process.

Comment 3

[cls]

That error is caused by the linker segfaulting, not any mozilla code.  If you're
building a debug version of mozilla, then you will need a lot of virtual memory
to link libgklayout.  You can work around this by increasing your ram/swap swap
or not compiling layout debug by using
--enable-debugger-info-modules=^layout,^content .