Description: starting with firefox 66, armhf builds on Launchpad frequently fail with "/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: memory exhausted" when linking libxul.so. This is an attempt to reduce the memory used by ld. Author: Olivier Tilloy --- a/build/moz.configure/toolchain.configure +++ b/build/moz.configure/toolchain.configure @@ -2418,8 +2418,8 @@ set_config("LINKER_KIND", select_linker.KIND) -@depends_if(select_linker, macos_sdk, sysroot_path, multiarch_dir) -def linker_ldflags(linker, macos_sdk, sysroot_path, multiarch_dir): +@depends_if(select_linker, macos_sdk, sysroot_path, multiarch_dir, host) +def linker_ldflags(linker, macos_sdk, sysroot_path, multiarch_dir, host): flags = list((linker and linker.LINKER_FLAG) or []) if macos_sdk: if linker and linker.KIND == "ld64": @@ -2427,6 +2427,9 @@ else: flags.append("-Wl,--sysroot=%s" % macos_sdk) + if host.cpu == "arm": + flags.append("-Wl,--no-keep-memory") + if sysroot_path and multiarch_dir: # Non-Debian-patched binutils linkers (both BFD and gold) don't lookup # in multi-arch directories.