On Jun 2, 2012 6:08 AM, "walt" 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