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From: Nilesh Govindrajan <contact@nileshgr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ~gcc-4.7.0
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 08:07:40 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPo3noY0wYwKvHEXNUGPLt2b=5YOqFZ=-Hee9MZaLnDM7==VgA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jqbn6q$los$1@dough.gmane.org>

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On Jun 2, 2012 6:08 AM, "walt" <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 05/29/2012 04:54 AM, walt wrote:
>>
>> Maybe a year ago I started having problems building virtualbox on my
>> older/smaller machine.  There is one place which ran through my puny
>> 1GB of ram and then went on to fill up another 2GB of swap before
>> oomkill stepped in.
>>
>> That turned out to be a gcc bug, and a proper fix was added to gcc
>> 4.7.0 but not back-ported to 4.5.3, which I'm still using.
>>
>> Since then I scavenged half of that 1GB of RAM for my wife's machine,
>> so it should be fun to try to build virtualbox with the other half :)
>
>
> Very cool :)  I just built virtualbox with gcc-4.7.0 on my old machine
> with 0.5 GB of ram and had no problems whatever.  I also pulled from
> Linus.git and compiled his latest kernel with gcc-4.7.0, no problems.
>
> So far, so good.
>
>
>

Has anyone tried compiling chromium 20 (as of yesterday) and libreoffice
3.5.4.2 using gcc 4.7.0? I am unable to do so. Using unstable Amd64.

--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-02  2:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-28 20:04 [gentoo-user] ~gcc-4.7.0 Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-05-28 20:54 ` Sascha Cunz
2012-05-28 21:11   ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-05-29  2:19     ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-29  2:26       ` Michael Mol
2012-05-29  8:30         ` microcai
2012-05-29 12:58           ` Michael Mol
2012-05-29 16:18             ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-05-29  9:42 ` [gentoo-user] ~gcc-4.7.0 Nikos Chantziaras
2012-05-29 11:35   ` Ezequiel Garcia
2012-05-29 11:58     ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-05-29 11:51   ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-05-29 10:13 ` [gentoo-user] ~gcc-4.7.0 Andrey Moshbear
2012-05-29 10:26 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-05-29 13:01   ` Adam Carter
2012-05-29 14:11   ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-05-29 11:54 ` [gentoo-user] ~gcc-4.7.0 walt
2012-06-02  0:36   ` walt
2012-06-02  2:37     ` Nilesh Govindrajan [this message]
2012-06-02  6:52       ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen

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