Re: The sad state of pkgsrc [was Re: pkgsrc NetBSD 7.0.1_PATCH/x86_64 2016-09-04 11:03]

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 12:10:30PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 11:14:24AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > > devel/sdcc3                                  bouyer%NetBSD.org@localhost
> > > 
> > > PLIST mismatch.
> > 
> > that's new. It builds in 2016Q2 and AFAIK nothing changed since
> > 2016Q2 (exept the perl update). 
> > I'll try to have a look.
> 
> gmake[6]: Entering directory '/data/scratch/devel/sdcc3/work/sdcc-3.6.0/device/non-free/lib/pic14/libdev'
> [  CC   ] ==> pic16f1773.o
> gp_calloc() -- Could not allocate 4194304 bytes of memory. {gpmemory.c.LINE-308, b_memory_put()}
> gmake[6]: [Makefile:32: pic16f1773.o] Error 1 (ignored)
> 
> that's why the libraries for the pic16f1773 (and others) didn't get
> installed. gpmemory.c is from gputils, but gputils didn't change
> between 2016Q2 and HEAD.

4GB memory use during build is excessive and harmful to other builds.
That's why a 2GB VA limit is in place. Now the question is, why does it
want such insane amounts in first place.

Joerg