Re: qemu needs > 2 GB of RAM to build?

[Ni Qingliang <niqingliang@insigma.com.cn>]

Do you mean it need the native-gcc on host to fix this bug?

On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 04:03 +0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Scott Garman <scott.a.garman@intel.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm testing building core-image-minimal in a resource-constrained
> > environment (a VirtualBox VM with 2300 MB of RAM allocated to it). With
> > PARALLEL_MAKE set to -j4 (the VM does have two CPUs allocated), I'm finding
> > that the build of qemu-native fails because the OOM killer steps in and
> > kills gcc. This is happening during the linking phase of building qemu.
> >
> > If this is true, I assume it would pretty much mean that no one can build
> > our images without more than 2 GB of RAM. Is this true? Is this something
> > for us to be concerned about?
> >
> 
> I think this could be because of gcc bug
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48190
> that bug has now been fixed and backported to gcc-4.5 and gcc 4.6
> branches as well
> however this fix has to go into the gcc in distro that you are running
> on build host
> we will get this fix into oe-core gcc as well but that may not help
> with qemu-native
> 
> -Khem
> 
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