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Subject: Re: Re: Buildworld.sh doesn't
Message-ID: <1se333$7m8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
From: cc465@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven M Ratliff)
Date: 7 May 1993 16:34:42 GMT
Reply-To: cc465@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steven M Ratliff)
References: <1993Apr24.002755.14867@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <1993May4.005115.2113@pony.Ingres.COM> <1993May6.163512.22171@88open.org>
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In a previous article, ferg@88open.org (John Ferguson) says:
>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.
>>
I would add.
3. Make sure you have enough free space on your partition to hold
all the obj files and binaries generated.
4. Have greater than 13 MB of combined RAM and Swap space.
I successfully ran the entire buildworld.sh non-stop on a 386 25 Mhz with
only 4 MB RAM but with 16 MB of swap. It only took 23 hours ;)
>>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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