On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am a longtime (0.7.8) LyX user and I am pretty used to
> LyX compilation under the Intel architecture.
Better than me, I'm only since 0.10.x :-)
> I have recently installed a Sparcstation 2 (64 M Ram) with Debian 2.2, I
I'm using x86 with 24 megs main memory + 64 megs swap and I have no
problems compiling it in my system. Sparc binaries might be
bigger, though.
> 1. My first attempt at linking was with the default object files _not_
> stripped. Linking fails with the "memory exhausted" message (I said I have
> 64 M + 32 swap--ld was over 50 M RESIDENT image size before giving up...)
If the problem is just available memory, you could temprarily create a
swap file, using Linux loopback driver. (man losetup)
> 2. then I tried to find & strip all the "*.o" files, than issuing
Not a good idea. Remove "-g" instead. Maybe use "-s" gcc argument (but I'm
not sure about this).
It is also possible that ld could have some bug. You might try upgrading
it (it's in binutils I think), if everything else fails.
