Re: mail/thunderbird: I finally found out the cause of its massive memory requirement for building

To: PHO <pho%cielonegro.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: mail/thunderbird: I finally found out the cause of its massive memory requirement for building
From: Benny Siegert <bsiegert%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 21:06:05 +0000 (UTC)



On Wed, 11 Nov 2026, PHO wrote:

Turned out there was a separate option for disabling debug symbols, namely--disable-debug-symbols, which had to be explicitly given if one wanted tostop it from getting killed by the kernel for running short of swap. Mozilla

Wow. Why would you ever want --disable debug but not--disable-debug-symbols?


Great find.

--
Benny

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