[LLVMdev] Another bad binutils?

Samuel Crow samuraileumas at yahoo.com
Wed May 5 13:41:26 PDT 2010


Hi Mike-M,

Thanks for the help.  It seems I'll have to just download the precompiled binaries since I only have 1 Gig in the entire system I'm using.

--Sam



----- Original Message ----
> From: mike-m <mikem.llvm at gmail.com>
> To: Samuel Crow <samuraileumas at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Wed, May 5, 2010 3:36:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Another bad binutils?
> 
> You will need a 1GB guest. Linking is the biggest memory hog of the entire build 
> process. I've measured it to require 850MB to 950MB for linking clang on various 
> 32 and 64 bit linux distros. If you try and link on a 512MB vbox, it will take 
> an order (or more) magnitude longer to link due to swapping than a 1GB guest. 
> 

--mike-m

On 2010-05-05, at 4:34 PM, Samuel Crow 
> wrote:

> 384 MBytes RAM
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----
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>> To: 
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> Sent: Wed, May 5, 2010 3:32:20 PM
>> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Another bad 
> binutils?
>> 
>> How much RAM have you allocated to vbox 
> guest?
> 
> --mike-m
> 
> On 
>> 2010-05-05, at 
> 4:12 PM, Samuel Crow wrote:
> 
>> After waiting through 
> 
>> about 2 hours of hard drive spinning for Clang to link under my 
> Xubuntu Lucid 
>> Lynx Linux setup on VirtualBox, ld finally just gave 
> up trying to link it.  
>> I was using CMake's build scripts on 
> version 2.7 release of LLVM and 
>> Clang.  The version of ld is 
> (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 
>> 2.20.1-system.20100303.  Can anyone 
> confirm this problem?  If needed 
>> I'll cross-post this to the 
> Ubuntu forums.  Thanks for your time.
>> 
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