Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2001/09/03/10:32:44
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> > Btw, I have tried to recompile gcc301s.zip. This seems impossible
> > using win95 (4.00.950). The genattrib program always dies with
> > the message that virtual memory has become exhausted. (DPMI
> > memory available=48726KB, DPMI swap space available=16106KB).
> > Am I missing something here? Can win95 not be used to compile gcc301?
>
> Win95 is not guilty. You have not enough RAM as genattrtab is very
> memory hungry. Try setting memory for DOS box to 65535K and see whether
> it helps.
It sounds like Juan already did that: 48MB + 16MB swap are 64MB.
If GCC cannot be built on less than 128MB, I'd suggest to say that in the
README file, where you describe how to build from sources.
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