gnu: ungoogled-chromium: Enable parallel build.

...but limit the memory usage.  Tested with --cores=8 on a 16 GiB RAM machine.

* gnu/packages/chromium.scm (ungoogled-chromium)[arguments]: Remove <#:parallel-build?>.
Add "jumbo_file_merge_limit=8" in <#:configure-flags>.
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Marius Bakke 2019-07-21 23:32:04 +02:00
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@ -408,9 +408,6 @@ (define-public ungoogled-chromium
(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
@ -467,6 +464,9 @@ (define-public ungoogled-chromium
;; Optimize for building everything at once, as opposed to
;; incrementally for development. See "docs/jumbo.md".
"use_jumbo_build=true"
;; The default file merge limit of 50 requires huge amounts of RAM.
;; Cap it to make sure the build succeeds on commodity hardware.
"jumbo_file_merge_limit=8"
;; Prefer system libraries.
"use_system_freetype=true"