Subject: ‘guix’ package fails to build on armhf-linux (OOM)

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 10:08:09 +0100

As of 1bc9d5222f9053fd0ace7b92df0ef9548707cf41 (version-1.4.0), the
‘guix’ package fails to build on armhf-linux, running out of memory:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
[ 75%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/toolkits.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/tor.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/tv.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/uglifyjs.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/uml.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/unicode.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/unrtf.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/upnp.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/usb-modeswitch.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/uucp.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/valgrind.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/version-control.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/video.go
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
[…]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The build process goes on; it never stops but doesn’t make any progress.

I don’t know if it’s deterministic.

It builds fine on i686-linux.

Ludo’.