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egcs-1.0.3a weirdness with lynx-2.8 on v2.1.107


Hi guys,

I could hardly believe my eyes tonight when I finally compiled lynx-2.8
with egcs-1.0.3a, using glibc-2.0.94, on kernel v2.1.107. 

What happened was that for some reasons (yet undetermined), the cc1
trundled off merrily on its way compiling LYMainLoop.c (in the src
subdirectory), and it seemed to get stuck somewhere. I then went into top
to see what it was doing and I was astonished to see that the swap space
was FULL, no more swap space available (this on a 32MB i486 machine with a
26MB swap file - it never used up more than 6MB normally and only uses up
more than that rarely when looking at some stupid java-based web sites)
and Linux was thrashing the hard disk so hard I was very afraid for the
poor thing's safety.  According to top, it had well over 49MB of virtual
memory used up on compiling that source file. Of course when the real
memory dropped to less than 512k, the compiler finally aborted with a
sig-11 error (please don't quote me the reference to that sig-11 error web
site - I have never had a sig-11 in the last 18 months that I have been
using Linux - and this is the first sig-11 error I have seen).

Has anyone successfully compiled lynx-2.8 with egcs-1.0.3a? Or has anyone
observed this behaviour? If not, can you please try compiling lynx-2.8 on
your respective machines and see what the results are? 

What the heck was it doing to that source code anyway?! :o) No harm done
anyway - I'm surprised Linux withstood the demands made of it - Windows 95
would have thrown in the towel ages ago... 

Cheers,
Alex
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