Re: Determining the amount of RAM required to build a particular OSS/FS application

[Michael Lueck <mlueck at lueckdatasystems dot com>]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 04/17/2013 02:41 AM, Michael Lueck wrote:
> > Well, I successfully built ImageMagick 6.3.9-2. I assume ImageMagick has grown over the years, and that is why it will no longer compile.
> >
> > Are you saying that it is code size which is causing the error and our older compiler, and not a memory limit?
>
> It's a bug in GCC 4.4.  It's fixed in 4.5.

Thank you for clarification. I will start by seeing which version of ImageMagick was distributed with Debian 6.0.7 and attempt to build that older version. It appears: 8:6.6.0.4-3+squeeze3 which I 
believe would sync up with ImageMagic source version 6.6.0-4. So perhaps up until the end of the 6.6.x source code version branch will compile, just not 6.8.x, for example.

I recall banging into a compiler issue once before and arriving at then the highest version of ImageMagick which would compile on the then Debian Woody (3.0) many years ago now. I had forgotten that 
Deja Vu point to this saga... seems I have already covered this ground once before.

And I actually cross posted to the ImageMagick support thread asking if they know how high of versions successfully compile on GCC 4.4x compiler versions. Perhaps that will get me around the 
"hunt-n-peck" work this time around.

Thank you all very much!

Sincerely,

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Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
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