Friday 16 February 2018

Re: Launchpad i386 build: Memory exhausted

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 09:21:56AM +0100, Cesare Falco wrote:
> I'm packaging latest MAME 0.194 and it builds fine on my PPA.
> Unfortunately, link fails for i386 due to virtual machine memory issues:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Memory exhausted
[...]
> Does anyone know whether virtual machines for official Ubuntu releases have
> more resources, specifically more memory?

PPA builds and Ubuntu builds use 100% identical virtual machines.

Anyway, it's not that the virtual *machine* is out of memory; it's that
any single 32-bit process can only address a certain amount of that
memory. As far as I'm aware, there's no option but to continue trying
to persuade the linker to take less memory.

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Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]

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