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
