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In message <20011109210555.A152594@aretha.informatik.uni-siegen.de>, you write:
 

-> I'm currently trying to compile a NetBSD (1.5.2) kernel for 
-> MIPSco machines (mipseb). As I have no native NetBSD-mipseb
-> machine available, I installed NetBSD 1.5.2 on an AlphaStation
-> 255 that was sitting unused in a corner (everyone here's 
-> transitioning to x86 hardware...) and tried to cross-compile
-> the NetBSD kernel according to the "Cross building NetBSD" 
-> document using the cross-mipseb-netbsd-1.3.0.0 package from
-> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/alpha/All/\
-> cross-mipseb-netbsd-1.3.0.0.tgz.
-> 
-> After adapting the cross-compile script the kernel compile
-> started fine but reproducably stops with a "virtual memory 
-> exhausted" error message when cross-compiling
-> 
-> usr/src/sys/lib/libkern/sha1.c
-> 
-> Increasing swap space to 1 GB did not change this behaviour.

Hmm, did you increase your per-process limits first?

I used the cross-mipseb package for quite a while to get going on
the sgimips port and at least for kernel compiles it worked quite
well (userland was another story... to get userland to build I 
used the crosscomp.sh tool written by Tim Rightnour and Bill
Sommerfeld, which built a cross-compiler from the in-tree egcs-
based toolchain).

My host was an x86 box with 256MB, and I never had to do much to
get things to build (not even touching process datasize limits);
I have no exprience using Alpha as a host, though.

--rafal

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