Failure to build libjava on 512MB machine

Wed Jan 31 08:10:00 GMT 2007

Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On 2007年1月30日, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> 78.67user 1.29system 1:20.01elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
>>>> and indeed, it does want a lot of memory - at peak some 550m. It'll
>> be smaller on a 32-bit box, but not much smaller.
>> Ouch. I can confirm that on a 32-bit box of mine it fails with about
> 500MB of main memory.

I also only have 500mb on my building box...
> On 2007年1月30日, Tom Tromey wrote:
>> I suppose with some awful build hacking we could split this .o into
>> multiple parts. I'm fine with the situation as it is, myself, but I
>> will do this if the consensus is that we should.
>> Please, pleeease. This really hurts. No I can no longer build libgcj
> on my notebook and one or two older (but not that old) testers of mine.

For me it's fine too... Gerald, what about using a bigger swap partition?
Marco