bug#33248: python-minimal compilation is breaking

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:

> Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> <znavko@tutanota.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. nov. 3., Szo 7:13):
>>
>>> I am watching this bug on Lenovo G50-30 (CPU 2.1 GHz, 2Gb Ram):
>>>
>>> # guix pull  --substitute-urls=https://berlin.guixsd.org
>>> Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at '
>>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
>>> Building from this channel:
>>>   guix      https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git    3995e85
>>> Computing Guix derivation for 'x86_64-linux'... \
>>> nothing to be done
>>>
>>> # guix package  --substitute-urls=https://berlin.guixsd.org -u
>>> substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://berlin.guixsd.org'...
>>> 100.0%
>>> substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://berlin.guixsd.org'...
>>> 100.0%
>>> building
>>> /gnu/store/6c4g38n9fhvnlk2vasn34mdd6nvpgx8m-python-minimal-3.6.5.drv...
>>> /Killed
>>> #
>>>
>>> Python-minimal cannot compile.
>>>
>>
>> Most probably you are hitting a resource limit, I guess ram. Do you have
>> any swap?
>
> I think I've hit the same problem, I tried with 32GB of RAM, along with
> 60GB of swap, and it still didn't work.
>
> There is a bug here describing it as a memory link [1], which is a
> better theory I think.
>
> 1: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=33213

Yes, it probably was related to this bug.  This test has been disabled
for some time already.

Closing.

Thanks for the report!

Maxim