On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 11:56 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] > In case people who know "how to" are reading, here's the error that > ends the compile. As I said, I've seen plenty of people posting about > this, but there's no obvious fix for me--some people suggest patches > to the libraries that are being used, but I don't see clear consensus > on the "right" approach. > gmake[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... Not an expert on this at all but have you tried building Firefox with _smp_mflags -j1? To set -j1 add this to your ~/.rpmmacros file: %_smp_mflags -j1 Regards, Patrick