szha commented on a change in pull request #15171: Upgrade archive utility and add back FC improvement URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/15171#discussion_r292752614
########## File path: docs/install/build_from_source.md ########## @@ -180,6 +180,8 @@ More information on turning these features on or off are found in the following There is a configuration file for make, [`make/config.mk`](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/blob/master/make/config.mk), that contains all the compilation options. You can edit it and then run `make` or `cmake`. `cmake` is recommended for building MXNet (and is required to build with MKLDNN), however you may use `make` instead. For building with Java/Scala/Clojure, only `make` is supported. +**NOTE:** When certain set of build flags are set, MXNet archive increases to more than 4 GB. Since MXNet uses archive internally archive runs into a bug ("File Truncated": [bugreport](https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14625)) for archives greater than 4 GB. Please use ar version 2.27 or greater to overcome this bug. Please see https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/15084 for more details. Review comment: the most significant part comes from the GPU code, and it's already an explicit switch ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services
