Bug#1022115: 0ad: fails to build from the source

[Andrej Shadura]

Hi,

On Thu, 20 Oct 2022, at 13:26, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 at 11:32:52 +0100, Andrej Shadura wrote:
>>  >  g++: fatal error: Killed signal terminated program cc1plus
> ...
>>     make[5]: *** Deleting file 'Unified_cpp_js_src_jit4.o'
>
> SIGKILL while compiling C++ looks like the OOM-killer to me: 0ad contains
> a bundled copy of mozjs, which is a large and compile-time-memory-hungry
> C++ project. How large a machine did you use to build it?
>
> (In particular, mozjs uses "unified" compilation where several C++ source
> files are bundled into one big translation unit, which is a time/space
> tradeoff that makes it use more memory to compile sooner. The down side
> is that machines with limited RAM can't compile it at all.)
>
> Having a bundled copy of mozjs is obviously not ideal, particularly with
> mozjs being such a pain to compile, but I seem to remember there's some
> technical reason why 0ad needs to have it.

I see; I’ll try rebuilding it on a beefier machine and report back to you.

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Cheers,
  Andrej