Re: cross compiling on Amiga

[Al Zick <al%familysafeinternet.com@localhost>]

Hi John,

On Jun 13, 2012, at 11:09 AM, John Klos wrote:

> > Out of memory. How much physical and virtual memory do you have?
> >
> > IIRC the amiga and some other m68k ports also have a quite limited
> > virtual address space (to allow running SunOS/68k binaries?). The  
> > memory
> > requirements for compiling gcc 4 are just too big.
>
> Even macppc machines can't build their own toolchain without u(n) 
> limiting.

This is something that I didn't know.


> Maybe it's time to remove SunOS support or make the optional case  
> where it's disabled so as not to limit the virtual address space.
> In the meanwhile, Al, would a shell on a fast machine be helpful to  
> you?


This would be great! Maybe we should discuss this off list.

Thanks,
Al