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Re: Bug#158444: ocaml_3.06-1(alpha/unstable): FTBFS: detects out of memory?? #3597

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vicuna opened this issue Aug 28, 2002 · 3 comments
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Re: Bug#158444: ocaml_3.06-1(alpha/unstable): FTBFS: detects out of memory?? #3597

vicuna opened this issue Aug 28, 2002 · 3 comments
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vicuna commented Aug 28, 2002

Original bug ID: 1357
Reporter: administrator
Status: closed
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:31:46AM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote:

sh ./runocamldoc true -man -d stdlib_man -I ../parsing -I ../utils -I ../typing -I ../driver -I ../bytecomp -I ../tools -I ../toplevel/ -I ../stdlib -I ../otherlibs/str -I ../otherlibs/dynlink -I ../otherlibs/unix -I ../otherlibs/num -I ../otherlibs/graph
-t "OCaml library" -man-mini
../stdlib/*.mli ../otherlibs/unix/unix.mli ../otherlibs/str/str.mli ../otherlibs/bigarray/bigarray.mli ../otherlibs/num/num.mli
Fatal error: out of memory.
make[2]: *** [stdlib_man/Pervasives.o] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory /build/buildd/ocaml-3.06/ocamldoc' make[1]: *** [ocamldoc] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory /build/buildd/ocaml-3.06'
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2

A full build log can be found at:
http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=alpha&pkg=ocaml&ver=3.06-1

ocaml fails to build from source because it apparently runs out of memory.
The build daemon has 500MB of RAM and 300MB of swap available to it. Several
other build daemons have far less memory. Build depends are installed on
both debian alpha machines if you want to give it a try.

Yes, i am aware of this problem, i did look at the buildd web site
myself. I was not aware about the memory size available to the build
depends, and was wondering if it was an upstream problem or a problem
with the build box (btw, on i386 i only have 128MB memory + 256MB swap,
and it builds fine, so it could be an upstream problem, but then i
don(t know the alpha well enough.)

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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vicuna commented Aug 28, 2002

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sh ./runocamldoc [...]
Fatal error: out of memory.
Yes, i am aware of this problem, i did look at the buildd web site
myself. I was not aware about the memory size available to the build
depends, and was wondering if it was an upstream problem or a problem
with the build box

No, it's a real OCaml bug that was reported to us by another user of
Linux/Alpha. The same issue appears on Linux/Itanium, and was fixed
for this platform before the 3.06 release, but we didn't anticipate
the issue to show also on the Alpha. (Apparently, all 64-bit
platforms with a recent enough version of glibc will trigger the problem.)

The good news is that the fix is already in the sources; it just needs
to be activated for your platform. The patch below (for the configure
script) should do the job.

Let me know how it goes.

Regards.

  • Xavier Leroy

Index: configure

RCS file: /net/pauillac/caml/repository/csl/configure,v
retrieving revision 1.174
retrieving revision 1.175
diff -r1.174 -r1.175
16c16
< # $Id: configure,v 1.174 2002/08/07 12:45:00 garrigue Exp $

$Id: configure,v 1.175 2002/08/27 08:30:53 xleroy Exp $

498c498
< ia64--linux)

ia64--linux|alpha*--linux)

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vicuna commented Sep 5, 2002

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On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 06:09:54PM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote:

sh ./runocamldoc [...]
Fatal error: out of memory.
Yes, i am aware of this problem, i did look at the buildd web site
myself. I was not aware about the memory size available to the build
depends, and was wondering if it was an upstream problem or a problem
with the build box

No, it's a real OCaml bug that was reported to us by another user of
Linux/Alpha. The same issue appears on Linux/Itanium, and was fixed
for this platform before the 3.06 release, but we didn't anticipate
the issue to show also on the Alpha. (Apparently, all 64-bit
platforms with a recent enough version of glibc will trigger the problem.)

The good news is that the fix is already in the sources; it just needs
to be activated for your platform. The patch below (for the configure
script) should do the job.

Let me know how it goes.

Yes, it does seem to work, at least ocaml 3.06-5 seems to have been
built on alpha as well as on all the arches that have an autobuilder.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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vicuna commented Sep 20, 2002

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Fixed 2002/08/27 by XL. See #3583

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