Installing GCC 4.1-20051223 on FreeBSD 6 failed

[Gerald Pfeifer]

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