SUMMARY: 4.0G: Insufficient virtual memory to continue compilation?

From: Sylvain Robitaille (syl@alcor.concordia.ca)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 14:52:59 EDT


On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, I wrote:

> I'm trying to compile OpenSSL-0.9.6e ... and I'm getting this error
> when it tries to compile crypto/sha/sha_dgst.c:
>
> Fatal: Insufficient virtual memory to continue compilation.

Thanks to David J. DeWolfe who pointed me to two archived messages that
discussed similar problems, and to Elizabeth Harvey-Forsythe who helped
others solve this problem before for sending me the answer.

Elizabeth's message to me nicely summarizes the two summaries that David
pointed me at, so I'll repeat it here:

  This is an optimization bug and it's fairly easy to work around.
  When compilation stops, issue the failing command again with -O flag
  replaced with -O0 and it will work. Return to the top-level directory
  and type "make" again and it will pick up where it left off.

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Sylvain Robitaille                              syl@alcor.concordia.ca
Systems analyst                                   Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology        Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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