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Re: Installing GCC 4.1-20051223 on FreeBSD 6 failed
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Jon Brisbin <jon dot brisbin at npcinternational dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:28:25 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Installing GCC 4.1-20051223 on FreeBSD 6 failed
- References: <43B5571C.3080209@npcinternational.com>
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Jon Brisbin wrote:
> I'm trying to install the GCC 4.1 snapshot from Dec 23, 2005 on my
> FreeBSD box. I'm trying to try out gcj. The installation fails,
> complaining about not enough virtual memory. I just added another 2GB
> swap file on this box. I now have 1GB of physical RAM and 4GBs of swap.
> And that's not enough?!
>
> What do I need to do to get gcj and libjava to install? Is this a
> problem with GNU make or GCC?
As Joe Wilson indicated, this may be related to FreeBSD's malloc.
However, there is a general problem in GNU make (which uses too much
memory, H.J. Lu proposed a patch) and libgcj (the Makefile dependencies
suffer from combinatorial explosion).
Gerald