From: Dan Kesch (dan@cadkey.cadkey.com)
Date: 05/19/93


From: dan@cadkey.cadkey.com (Dan Kesch)
Subject: [Q]: Why can't I 'make dep' with 32 MB of virtual memory?!?
Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 22:26:12 GMT

Hi everybody,

yesterday, I attempted to recompile my 0.99pl8 (SLS 1.01) version of the
kernel. However, I ran into the following problem:

[My box: Gateway 486/33C,
        16 MB RAM,
        245 MB Seagate SCSI drive dedicated to Linux,
        w/ 16 MB swap-partition (i.e. total of 32 MB vir. mem.),
        Adaptec 1542B controller, WD8003E ethercard]

After running 'make config', I was not able to run 'make dep' to come up
with the dependency file for the compile. Apparently, while executing
'make dep' in the linux/kernel directory, something went wrong, leaving
me with a "out of virtual memory" error and a failed 'make'. Hmm, how
could that be, since my swap-partition seems to be working fine (32 MB
of virt. mem.) ?

I played around with the 'Makefile', changing around the order in which
'make dep' was called in each of the sub-system directories. The result:
only the linux/kernel directory fails, all the others (mm, fs, net, lib)
work.

Any advice?

Any help is much appreciated, since I need to set up my box for school
work RSN.

Dan.

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