Some packages, like haskell-src-exts, needs a lot of memory during compilation. Unfortunately, this amount of memory is not available on all platforms, and error: "virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory." could appear.
In this case possible solution could be using ggc-min-expand. This parameter specifies the minimum percentage by which the garbage collector’s heap should be allowed to expand between collections. Tuning this may improve compilation speed; it has no effect on code generation. Read more about this here: http://hostingfu.com/article/compiling-with-gcc-on-low-memory-vps Regards, Dejan ________________________________________ From: Joachim Breitner [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 2:39 PM To: Dejan Latinovic; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#770830: haskell-src-exts: FTBFS for mips/mipsel, virtual memory exhausted Hi, Am Montag, den 24.11.2014, 13:23 +0000 schrieb Dejan Latinovic: > Package: haskell-src-exts > Version: 1.14.0.1-1 > Tags: sid patch > Severity: important > Justification: FTBFS > User: [email protected] > Usertags: mips-patch > > > Packge haskell-src-exts FTBFS for mips and mipsel with an error: > virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory. > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=haskell-src-exts&ver=1.14.0.1-1&suite=sid > > Patch that fixes this issue is attached. > With this patch I was able to successfully built > haskell-src-exts for both mips and mipsel. > > > Could you please consider including this patch? great, thanks for the patch. Could you explain a bit what it does, and why it works, so that when in 5 years someone looks as the code knows why it is there? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F JID: [email protected] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
