Subject: Re: It compiles... It runs!
To: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
From: David Johnston <david@canopus.apana.org.au>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/15/1998 08:26:28
[ extract of message from Dave Huang on "Re: It compiles... It runs!" ]
> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, David Johnston wrote:
> > A few oddities - I can only get the symbolically linked version to work. The
> > statically linked one seg faults before raising any windows, and I can't run
> > gdb on the resulting core-file - gdb always bails out complaining that I've
> > run out of virtual memory (even if I raise the virtual memory to 100MB).
> 
> Yes, the static version of libX11 is messed up, due to a bug in gcc, I
> think. (See my message in
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/mailing-lists/port-mac68k/port-mac68k.0886
> for more details). If you want to get it to work, you'll have to get the
> source to one of the files in libX11 and recompile it with cc -O instead
> of cc -O2.
> 
> BTW, how did you raise the VM to 100MB? By default, the max datasize
> limit is 64MB... I think you have to recompile your kernel with a larger
> MAXDSIZ to go over that.
>

Hmm. I just changed my swap partition from a 50MB one to a 100MB one. From
the output of 'pstat -k', and by watching vmstat while mozilla attempted to
load, it appears to have worked.

	david