>> My build of xorg-server died. The box ran out of swap space. I have >> 512M RAM + 1G swap. Someone please tell me this is a glitch in the new >> gcc. I don't want to add ram just to be able to compile a simple >> program. :) > > The quick fix is to build at a lower optimization level. Advanced > optimizations can be very memory-consuming, especially when compiling > unusually large source files, or source files which contain unusually > large functions. Ok, that appears to do the trick. Compile without any optimization at all. But I wonder: what is the point of a huge object file with 10000 or so symbols, of which I most likely will use only one or two? I thought the whole point of the new xorg was the modularity. (I'm afraid I'm getting a bit off-topic now, so I will quickly stop my ranting here. :)Received on Mon May 21 2007 - 16:28:42 UTC
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