I ran into this problem today and removing the ulimit -v in my .bashrc 
resolved it. 
Is this a real bug or just the fact that you need a lot of memory to build 
everything and if the memory limit is too low this is the error message?

On Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 11:02:38 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
>
> 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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