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From: ferg@88open.org (John Ferguson)
Subject: Re: Buildworld.sh doesn't
Organization: 88open Consortium Ltd.
Date: Thu, 6 May 93 16:35:12 GMT
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In article <1993May4.005115.2113@pony.Ingres.COM> galtman@Ingres.COM (Gregory Altman) writes:
>Mark Marden (mwmarde@afterlife.ncsc.mil) wrote:
>:    Could anyone who has successfully installed the 0.2.3 patchkit
>: provide enlightment to the tricks used to install it. Having tried 
>
>0. Check that you run afterinstall.sh after applying patches.
>1. Check that you have rebuilt GENERICISA before running buildworld.sh.
>2. Check that the patches were not corrupt.
>
>The only problem with buildworld.sh that I had was that the build process
>would fall asleep in the middle.  Doing a ^C would snap it out, or just a
>plain hard reboot.  If this happens, you may want to save the .OUT file
>and restart the build (without the STAGE1).
>
>--
>Greg Altman - galtman@ingres.com  (My opinions are almost  ALWAYS  my own)
>Sysop       - (510) 657-7948      (SF Bay Area OS/2 BBS  - the playground)

I had that problem running with only 8MB of memory and the small default
swap partition.  Seems that vm becomes exhausted while the gplusplus parser
is being compiled (sorry, I can't remember the filename).  After adding swap
space on as1b, the problem went away.

   ferg
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