On Jun 2, 2012 6:08 AM, "walt" <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.

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