[asterisk-dev] Hmm. "Virtual memory exhausted" building SVN trunk

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:21:49AM -0400, Brian Capouch wrote:
> I suspect I may need to upgrade my gcc, but I haven't seen mention of 
> such.  I try to watch all the postings about the development tree:
> 
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/asterisk/agi'
> make -C db1-ast libdb1.a
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/asterisk/db1-ast'
> make[1]: *** virtual memory exhausted.  Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/asterisk/db1-ast'
> make: *** [db1-ast/libdb1.a] Error 2
> 
> My development system has lots of memory free--the swap hasn't even been 
> touched.  I suspect something else at fault, but know not what. . .

saw that too, with gmake 3.80.2 on FreeBSD.

I tracked the problem to a macro expansion, but than since i know
from past experience that gmake has an endless list of bugs, i
decided to upgrade gmake (now at 3.81) and it seems to work now.

	cheers
	luigi