GNU make 3.80 is a HUGE memory hog. It calls xstrdup to build
dependency list. gnu-src-gcc.deps in libjava has 3000+ targets depend
the same 3000+ files, whose filenames are more than 260K. For this
dependency alone, make takes 3000*260K == 761MB.
Then, you should make the 3000+ target depend
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 10:33:31PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 11:45:21AM +, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > Alan Modra writes:
> > > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:35:31AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > > > spawns a recursive make (GNU make 3.80) that consumes some 450MB of
> >
