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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
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Subject: Re: Open Source does not mean easily re-compile-able
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:10:22 -0300
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kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) writes:

> Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>> kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) writes:
>> 
>>> Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> wrote:
>>>> Yay!  The joy of building redhat.  Expect your
>>>> build dependencies being inadequate, missing,
>>>> or plainly wrong.  Just saying.
>>>
>>> After some minor spec file tweaking, I managed to do
>>> *one* successful TB build, but because Rust compiler can
>>> hog almost 16GB of memory, most of the time I just
>>> cannot build TB using my modest Lenovo laptop. OOM
>>> killer kicks in and destroys the build.
>>>
>>> I never could have believed that having 16GB of
>>> RAM and 8GB of swap is not enough for building TB!
>> 
>> You did it.  Thanks for sharing the experience.
>
> With some incredible luck, it worked out *once*. :-)

That also explains why some people were skeptical here.  Even with a
sophisticated system to make the compilation succeed, it's still not
without a thrill.