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Date:      Mon, 21 May 2007 08:15:34 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Michiel Boland <michiel@boland.org>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem compiling xorg-server{-snap} on recent -CURRENT
Message-ID:  <4651B796.2000602@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <863b1qrz11.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <200705202254.45347.jonathan@fosburgh.org>	<20070521011217.O44264@volatile.chemikals.org>	<Pine.GSO.4.64.0705210815340.13001@neerbosch.nijmegen.internl.net> <863b1qrz11.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Michiel Boland <michiel@boland.org> writes:
>> 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.
> 
> DES

That isn't good. Are you running X at the same time as the compile, with 
what programs going in the background?

Also, what do your CFLAGS look like?

-Garrett



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