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On Sunday 18 January 2009 06:38:15 Richard Watson wrote: |
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> I'm sorry about the delay in closing this. I finally figured out if I |
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> remove "-pipe" from my /etc/make.conf CFLAGS that all my compile errors go |
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> away. Looking at the reference on the subject this option tells GCC not to |
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> create temporary files when compiling but to turn this off if low on RAM. |
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> Not sure why this happens as I have a 1GB Ram. Maybe this is not enough |
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> these days. Anyway problem solved. |
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That's an interesting result, but I can't help thinking it's the wrong |
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solution to the wrong problem. One of my machines has had merely 1G for 2 |
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years, before that it had 512M for 3 years and it has never shown this |
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symptom. I have servers at work with 512M - same thing, even when building |
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current packages. |
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Gut feel is telling me that removing -pipe is simply revealing a deeper |
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symptom somewhere - 1G is actually an enormous amount of memory for |
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compilation purposes. If you feel like digging deeper, I'd be very interested |
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to see where this one leads. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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