From: aja.wbst845@xerox.com (Alan Aufderheide) Subject: problem compiling Xphoon Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 13:20:29 GMT
Hi all,
I wondered if anyone has been able to compile Xphoon (displays current phase
of the moon in the background of X) under Linux. I'm running SLS 0.99.6.
The problem I have is that while it's compiling, it chews up swap like it's
Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Cookie Dough Ice Cream.
Originally I had 9M of swap and it failed. So I added 16M for a total of 25M.
Tried compiling again while watching swap space using free from another VC.
Within minutes it was all chewed up and I had to abort the compile.
The only thing unique about Xphoon is it has a bitmap array definition in the
source. The bitmap is 1600x1280x1 so it totals 2Mbits (256Mbytes) and the bitmap
file in source is 1.3M. How can that chew up 20M of swap? Can gcc handle source
initialization of LARGE arrays? We don't have gcc at work, but cc compiled it
fine on a Sun.
The source is from 1988, I don't know if it's been changed since.
Thanks for any help,
Alan aja.wbst845@xerox.com