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authorMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2019-06-20 22:47:36 +0200
committerMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2019-06-20 22:49:32 +0200
commit9a2e5fe5fdcc6ea848ceeefa0f70147dfb360639 (patch)
treea8be3064a924e81b49171f0ba0d44c8cfb5fe736
parent0605d939a91e9aa945bb09c2f41d4421dc1c6c0b (diff)
downloadguix-9a2e5fe5fdcc6ea848ceeefa0f70147dfb360639.tar.gz
gnu: ungoogled-chromium: Disable parallel build.
* gnu/packages/chromium.scm (ungoogled-chromium)[arguments]: Set
  #:parallel-build? #f.  Adjust 'build' phase to account for it.
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/chromium.scm9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
index f3f91cc603..a1e40b9ba0 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/chromium.scm
@@ -404,6 +404,9 @@ from forcing GEXP-PROMISE."
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (arguments
      `(#:tests? #f
+       ;; Chromiums build processes may consume up to 8GiB of memory per core.
+       ;; Disable parallel builds to avoid thrashing end user systems.
+       #:parallel-build? #f
        ;; FIXME: Chromiums RUNPATH lacks entries for some libraries, so
        ;; we have to disable validation and add a wrapper below.
        #:validate-runpath? #f
@@ -605,9 +608,11 @@ from forcing GEXP-PROMISE."
                (format #t "Dumping configure flags...\n")
                (invoke "gn" "args" "out/Release" "--list"))))
          (replace 'build
-           (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+           (lambda* (#:key (parallel-build? #t) #:allow-other-keys)
              (invoke "ninja" "-C" "out/Release"
-                     "-j" (number->string (parallel-job-count))
+                     "-j" (if parallel-build?
+                              (number->string (parallel-job-count))
+                              "1")
                      "chrome"
                      "chromedriver")))
          (replace 'install