I confirm that removing  "ulimit -Sv 5000000" from .bashrc allows me to 
build Julia, or at least advances me to the next, unrelated problem.
Thanks.

On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 4:40:40 PM UTC+1, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
>
> I have the same problem (user janders cannot build julia: 
> https://gist.github.com/JonathanAnderson/7fa10f187c564c864817). I thought 
> it might be related to a ulimit restriction placed on my userid so I built 
> with a different userid that has no limit.
>
> This userid is able to build everything successfully on the same host that 
> my build failed on.
>
> The following data point is also interesting.... 
>
> I copied the built software onto a NFS partition that ignores ownership 
> and everything is a+rwx
> * When I run this build as the userid that built the software, I can run 
> the build
> * If I run as the userid researcher, I can run this build
> * If I run as my original userid (janders) I get the "could not allocate 
> pools"
>
> Here is janders' ulimit -a
>
> ulimit -a
> -t: cpu time (seconds)         unlimited
> -f: file size (blocks)         unlimited
> -d: data seg size (kbytes)     unlimited
> -s: stack size (kbytes)        8192
> -c: core file size (blocks)    unlimited
> -m: resident set size (kbytes) unlimited
> -u: processes                  256722
> -n: file descriptors           1024
> -l: locked-in-memory size (kb) unlimited
> -v: address space (kb)         8000000
> -x: file locks                 unlimited
> -i: pending signals            256722
> -q: bytes in POSIX msg queues  819200
> -e: max nice                   40
> -r: max rt priority            unlimited
> -N 15:                         unlimited
>
> What else can I provide to debug this?
>
> On Friday, February 27, 2015 at 7:18:55 AM UTC-6, [email protected] 
> wrote:
>>
>> Anyone know something about this ?
>>
>> I did not build the latest Julia (master branch) since about 30 days.
>> Now, when I do 'git pull' and 'make' I am getting various error messages:
>>
>>    could not allocate pools
>>    Aborted
>>    Makefile:165: recipe for target 
>> '/home/jlapeyre/software_source/julia/usr/lib/julia/sys0.o' failed
>>
>> This was a few days ago, so I 'pulled' every once in a while, hoping the 
>> problem would go away.
>> I tried make clean, make cleanall, make distcleanall. Then dependencies 
>> also fail to build
>> I removed even the packages with   make -C deps distcleanall.
>>
>> I have not changed my tool chain since the last successful build. I can't 
>> recall, but there is a
>> chance (but, I think not) that I moved the entire repository from one 
>> place to another.
>>
>> Since I don't see any noise about this, something tells me its not a 
>> common problem.
>>
>> --John
>>
>

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