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+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 <olivier.tilloy@canonical.com>
+
+--- 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.
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