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 05:50:16PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 04:06:36PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > > It wants 4MB, not 4GB. or are you saying that the process grows that big ?
> > 
> > Bah, can't count. But anyway, the VA limit is 2GB.
> 
> OK, for sdcc3, it fails for me too with a 2GB VA limit. It builds with a 3GB
> limit, and it doen't seem to use really use 3GB of RAM (I didn't see my system
> swapping or reclaiming that much memory from the file cache).
> I'm not sure what could be done to fix this. Nor if limiting the VA to 2GB
> is a good idea :)

Looking a bit further, it seems to be gplib that fails. That's
ridiculous -- a linker for a 16bit target trying to allocate more than
2GB space. I wonder if there is a negative integer cast to unsigned
somewhere or so.

Joerg