bug#48963: "guix build guix" halts after exhausting memory

[Julien Lepiller]

Le Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:58:09 -0400,
Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> a écrit :

> Hi Ludo,
> 
> I tried your patch by creating a variant of the guix package. My
> first attempt was a failure because it's still using almost all my
> memory and I forgot to enable my swap. In the second attempt, the
> build phase succeeded, but the build failed during the test phase
> (test/inferior). I've started a new build hoping it's a
> non-deterministic failure.

I'm afraid after testing 2 more times that the test failure is
happening consistently, at least of armhf.