Francis ANDRE wrote: > Hi OpenJDK Team > > > While trying to build OpenJDK on WXP SP2, I am facing to a recurrent > problem with cygwin that crashes because it could not allocate heap > space... > > $ make > 7 [main] ? (232756) C:\Progra~1\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error > - could > n't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x6E0000, > reserve_size 61 > 440, allocsize 65536, page_const 4096 > > > This intermittent heap memory allocation problem is a recurent one > explained many times on the cygwin archives mailing list. > > Even with the suggested command explained in > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-11/msg00413.html > > regtool -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygnus\ Solutions/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb > 2048 > > make fails on a regular basis... even after the execution of a rebaseall > as stated in the cygwin mails. > > > > > So, that's why I am wondering if you plan to use cpptasks and ant script > since using cpptask and the ant-contrib library could be a viable > alternative to avoid the cygwin unstability.
It'd be a hell of a lot easier to fix the Cygwin bug -- if indeed it is a Cygwin bug -- than to move to using Ant. Not to mention a huge burden on the rest of us who aren't using Microsoft OS. Andrew.
