I suspect that it's not that VMS can't handle it- it's more likely that
VMS does a better job of placing quotas on memory usage than other OSes.
There's probably something analogous to "ulimit" which would fix the
issue, but requiring that in order to build parrot isn't really reasonable.
If we can make it take less memory, that'd be preferable.
Though if it's running out of memory on that grep, i hesitate to imagine
what it will do on trying to compile some of those giant autogenerated .c
files.
--Josh
At 11:52 on 03/17/2002 PST, "Brent Dax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Sugalski:
> # At 10:13 AM -0800 3/17/02, Brent Dax wrote:
> # ># Probing Perl 5's configuration to determine which headers you
> # ># have (this could
> # ># take a while on slow machines)...
> # ># Out of memory!
> # ># %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort
> # >
> # >Lines in question:
> # >
> # >
> # >foreach(grep {/^i_/} keys %Config) {
> # > $c{$_}=$Config{$_};
> # > $c{headers}.=defineifdef((/^i_(.*)$/));
> # >}
> # >
> # >I think VMS is too lame to handle the grep line.
> #
> # No, it's not. Perl works fine on VMS, just as it does on dozens of
> # other platforms. If that code's throwing a fit, then either perl
> # itself is broken, or the configure script is broken.
> #
> # Likely the error is someplace else.
>
> We saw this error on VMS before, and that was the cause. That line
> _does_ take a lot of memory:
>
> -the hash
> -a list of the keys
> -the result list from the grep
>
> # >Honestly, I'd rather not change it to bow to a retarded OS
> #
> # I think, perhaps, that namecalling at software would best be saved
> # for other places.
>
> The namecalling was because it couldn't handle grep's memory
> requirements (which, granted, are non-trivial), not because of any
> personal dislike for VMS. I don't know enough about VMS to form an
> opinion on it--its popular days were before my time. ;^)
>
> --Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> @roles=map {"Parrot $_"} qw(embedding regexen Configure)
>
> #define private public
> --Spotted in a C++ program just before a #include
