Re: Failure to build gobject-introspection

[maya%NetBSD.org@localhost]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:43:55PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi Maya!
> 
> maya%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> > > > distutils.errors.CompileError: command 'cpp' terminated by signal 11
> > > Usually any GCC crashes on widely used architectures are running out of
> > > RAM.
> > See  `dmesg |tail` to see some messages related to out-of-RAM GCC
> > components killed.
> 
> dmesg does not report anything suspect since boot.. and I did try to rerun
> the build twice, so I should see two crashes.
> The laptop has 4GB of ram and the same swap.... this even is enough to build
> geck and more or less rust... what's with gobject?
> 
> any better ideas? :-)
> 
> true is that we have now changed GCC in base now.. and 8.4.0 is giving me
> other issues...

I was about to write that the usual failure for gobject-introspection is
that /usr/pkg or pkgsrc is a symlink, before seeing "signal 11" which is
SIGSEGV.