I'm having a heck of a time compiling this for windows. Do the linux packages also suffer from the "too many root sets" error?
It appears that the only pylucene binary that wouldn't have this problem is the OS X version because you patched GCJ before building? Thx again- John --- Andi Vajda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, John Kleven wrote: > > > Fellow pylucene friends -- > > > > I'm getting this godforsaken error msg in a popup > > window while doing some heavy duty indexing on > winXP. > > > > "Fatal error in gc" > > "Too many root sets" > > > > And I want to die. > > > > So after reading that GCJ on top of mingw is not > so > > easy to build for win32 to here: > > > http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/pylucene-dev/2005-September/000712.html > > > http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/pylucene-dev/2005-September/000713.html > > > > And seeing on the pylucene homepage that OS X > Pylucene > > binaries get a special GCJ build (LARGE_CONFIG) > ... > > i'm wondering if anybody has got a beautiful > beautiful > > PyLucene windows build w/ the LARGE_CONFIG patch > to > > GCJ??? Need some LARGE CONFIG!! > > Here is a gcj 3.4.6 build built with LARGE_CONFIG > that you can use to build a > LARGE_CONFIG PyLucene: > http://downloads.osafoundation.org/compilers/windows/mingw-5.0-3.4.6.tar.bz2 > > > Is there any truth to this post: > > > http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/pylucene-dev/2005-February/000542.html > > No, these root sets are a bug of libgcj which > insists on scanning the static > variables of *all* shared libraries in the process, > not just the one using it. > If you lots of shared libraries in your process, > it's pretty easy to hit this. > > This has been identified as a bug by the gcj > developers and is either fixed or > in the process of being fixed on the latest gcj > 4.2.x. Don't ask when there is > going to be a viable gcj 4.2.x for windows, that > seems very far off since > no-one is actively working on it. > > Andi.. > _______________________________________________ > pylucene-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/pylucene-dev > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ pylucene-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/pylucene-dev
