Re: python configure.py never exiting when building firefox

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> writes:

> Something like 50% of the time when I try to build firefox I end up with a
> python process that never ends. From memory this also happens almost every
> time I try to build thunderbird, but... I don't often try to build
> thunderbird :)
>
> python2.7 /var/obj/pkg/www/firefox/work/firefox-67.0.2/configure.py
> --enable-application=browser --prefix=/usr/pkg --target=x86_64--netbsd
> --host=x86_64--netbsd --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk3 --enable-release
> --enable-webrender=build --disable-tests --enable-system-pixman
> --enable-system-ffi --with-system-icu --with-system-nss --with-system-nspr
> --with-system-zlib --with-system-bz2 --with-system-libevent=/usr
> --disable-crashreporter --disable-necko-wifi --enable-chrome-format=flat
> --disable-libjpeg-turbo --with-system-webp --disable-gconf --disable-icf
> --disable-updater --disable-alsa --with-oss --disable-jemalloc
> --disable-debug-symbols --enable-optimize=-O2 --enable-install-strip
> --disable-debug --disable-pulseaudio --enable-dbus
> --enable-official-branding --disable-webrtc
>
> This is under NetBSD-8_STABLE amd64 with MAKE_JOBS=8
>
> Is anyone else seeing this?

I am also seeing this, but fuzzily as I have not tracked it down.   I
have the problem much more with thunderbird than firefox.

netbsd-8, amd64, MAKE_JOBS 8, 4 cpus